Senior Software Developer

At Advantive, we make purpose-built software for specialty manufacturing and distribution businesses that streamline complex processes, optimize operations visibility and throughput, and drive improved quality, profitability, and revenue growth. Deeply embedded in our customers’ businesses, Advantive’s software solutions add value along the full manufacturing and distribution lifecycle.

Our customers, who include corrugated and packaging manufacturers, equipment and supply wholesale distributors, and automotive and other specialty manufacturers, benefit from our solutions that have been honed over decades in the marketplace. We know our customers’ businesses intimately and deliver software to address their needs.

Position Purpose

The general purpose of this role is to deliver software that meets our customers’ needs within the assigned timelines.

Key Accountabilities & Result areas

Software Design

Objective

Means for Achieving the Objective

The completed software fulfils that users’ requirements, and the user interaction is simple, attractive and intuitive

Participate in Requirements Analysis discussions.

Prepare screen mock-ups and descriptions of user interaction/workflows.

Consider an appropriate range of implementation options and make recommendations of best approaches.

Prepare technical specifications.

Development time is accurately estimated to facilitate reliable project schedules

Identify units of work and determine estimated development time.

Software Development

Objective

Means for Achieving the Objective

Solutions are developed with a minimum of defects and completed on-time

Complete the development of new functionality and modifications to existing functionality.

Write unit tests and conduct an appropriate level of manual testing prior to handing the work over to the Testing team.

Code can be easily understood and is well structured to allow for efficient future maintenance

Write clean, carefully documented, object-oriented code.

Adhere to the established Kiwiplan standards and processes.

Obtain peer review of design specifications and completed code.

Conduct peer reviews of other Engineer’s specifications and code.

Knowledge Transfer

Objective

Means for Achieving the Objective

Learning outcomes are applied to future development tasks across the entire development team

Involve team members in design and development discussions.

Present tutorials and information sessions.

Development tasks can be readily shared among team members.

Lead Functional Reviews of completed software.

Other departments have sufficient knowledge to complete their responsibilities (such as testing and release documentation)

Participate in discussions with staff in other departments.

Contribute to internal knowledge bases.

Support

Objective

Means for Achieving the Objective

Internal and external customers receive the assistance that they need

Act as a point of contact for the Testing Team and Support Teams.

Health & Safety / Compliance

Objective

Means for Achieving the Objective

Compliance

Ensure a sound understanding of, demonstrate commitment and comply with all legislation and Kiwiplan policy relevant to the role and activities undertaken in the role.

Health & Safety

Undertake all work in a safe manner and follow all company and workplace health and safety procedures.

Identify new hazards and advise manager or workplace Health and Safety representative within 24 hours of identification.

Accurately report incidents and accidents to manager or workplace Health and Safety representative as soon as possible.

RELATIONSHIPS:
Development Manager

Direct Manager

Product Owners

Supervise / Lead the team and assign the workload. Provide help in eliciting requirements & defining and refining scope. Discussion of proposed development solutions.

Technical Lead

Provide guidance with development approaches and give feedback based on results.

Scrum Master

Provide coaching and leadership to the team to be more productive and encourage them to produce quality products.

Testers

Build relationships with Test Analysts & provide help in identifying and resolving issues..

Software Engineers

Build relationships with other Engineers and ensure the consistency of approach, and quality of implementation. Develop integration solutions.

Technical Writers

Provide knowledge on products. Ensure that the Technical Writing team is in the loop and review the documentation created.

Support Team

Provide product knowledge and assist in issue analysis and reproduction.

What you'll do
- Work in an Agile environment
- Utilise best practices and modern development techniques
- Ensure the optimal level of unit testing is carried out.
- Contribute to system design and architecture discussions.

**Skills & Other Requirements**:
What we are looking for
- Intermediate role: 3 - 5 years of expert knowledge working with.Net programming language, platform, and development environment.
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