Software Applications Developer II (C#/.NET)

Location: College Station, Texas, United States; on-call, evening, weekend, and holiday support may be required.

Salary: $72,730 annually.

Company

Texas A&M University provides university operations and technology services through its Technology Services team.

What you will do

• Design, develop, enhance, maintain, and modernize moderately complex to complex applications, legacy systems, and new software initiatives supporting Transportation Services and other university systems.
• Develop database queries, views, stored procedures, data access components, APIs, web services, and integrations with internal and external systems.
• Analyze requirements, prepare application designs and technical documentation, estimate development effort, identify risks, and coordinate implementation with technical teams and stakeholders.
• Develop and execute unit, integration, and regression tests; investigate defects, perform root cause analysis, validate fixes, and support user acceptance and release validation.
• Monitor application health, resolve production incidents and deployment failures, and support builds, deployments, configuration changes, releases, and operational documentation.
• Participate in code reviews and provide technical guidance while collaborating with developers, technical leads, database administrators, customers, product owners, project teams, and business users.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Three years of software applications developer experience.
• Ability to analyze complex technical problems, interpret business and technical requirements, develop and maintain applications, manage competing priorities, and work independently and collaboratively.
• Knowledge of software development principles, application design, programming, debugging, testing, relational databases, version control, secure coding, and software development lifecycle practices.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical audiences, gather and clarify requirements, explain technical concepts, and provide responsive customer service.
• Ability to multitask and work cooperatively with others.
• Ability to maintain the security and integrity of critical infrastructure and comply with applicable state and federal laws, university policies, regulations, procedures, and safety requirements.
• Required to work on call and outside regular business hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, as business needs warrant.
• This is a security-sensitive position; applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation and credential verification.

Nice to have

• Experience developing and maintaining C# and .NET applications, including legacy .NET Framework and modern .NET.
• Experience with ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, desktop, console, or service-based applications.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle, including queries, views, stored procedures, and database troubleshooting, plus Entity Framework or similar ORM frameworks.
• Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Bootstrap, jQuery, or similar web technologies.
• Experience developing and consuming REST APIs, web services, and system integrations.
• Experience with Git and GitHub, including branching, pull requests, peer code reviews, CI/CD, automated builds, deployment pipelines, and application configuration.
• Knowledge of application security, secure coding, performance, and accessibility principles.
• Experience with software testing, defect resolution, production troubleshooting, application monitoring, and AI-assisted development tools with independent validation of generated results.
• Experience gathering requirements, estimating development effort, collaborating with customers and project teams, or developing and supporting parking management, permitting, or enforcement system integrations.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work with developers, technical leads, database administrators, university stakeholders, customers, and business end users.
• Work supports essential university technology services and may involve critical infrastructure.
• Work is governed by established coding standards, secure development principles, change management, and software development lifecycle practices.
• Applications must include complete job application data or an attached resume; a cover letter and resume are strongly recommended.
• Equal opportunity, veterans, and disability employer.