Remote-Senior Back End Software Developer

Remote-Senior Back End Software Developer

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Company Summary

Join a team that puts its People First! Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for six consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.

Job Summary

The National Commercial Services (NCS) division is building out a best of breed application that will set the business apart for its competitors. The Senior Back End Software Developer will participate in the design, development, coding, testing, debugging, and maintenance of software code for a web application that will serve our customers and employees. In this role, the developer will be responsible for contributing and delivering quality software while collaborating and supporting the team. You will work with business and technical staff to understand requirements and problems and develop specifications to resolve them.

Essential Functions

• Design and build scalable enterprise web applications within .NET Core ecosystem
• Write lots of clean, readable, and reusable C# code
• Engage daily with your distributed, remote engineering team working on different layers of the infrastructure
• Collaborate with product designers and clients to clarify requirements, prototype functionality and build products
• Plan, estimate and prioritize work in a remote, distributed team environment
• Provides maintenance of developed software including regression testing and debugging.
• Formulates, defines and documents system scope and objectives for assigned projects.
• Formulate and define system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to develop or modify internal business systems.
• Build test automation suites to ensure the quality of guest impacting products

Knowledge & Skills/Technology Used

• 5 + years of professional experience
• Strong server-side development experience utilizing .NET Technologies - emphasis on .NET Core
• Experience writing reusable libraries and clean, readable C# code
• Good understanding of CLR and its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
• Strong hands-on experience using Git is required
• Previous professional experience with cloud providers
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Experience working within an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Understanding of front-end concepts and technology (React, TypeScript)
• Unit testing experience

• Proficient in CI/CD and DevOps process

• Previous experience collaborating on highly distributed teams

Other Qualities & Skills

• Quick starter within your area of expertise and steps up to challenges outside of it
• Thrives on collaborating with other team members and across disciplines
• Welcomes feedback and sees it as an opportunity for reflection and improvement
• Always learning - Whether you are learning to help your team to work through new concepts and technology
• You are astute, you know when to push an issue and when to let things lie
• You are friendly - you reach out to your teammates even if they aren't on your project team
• You can work through ambiguity - you aren't shy about asking questions to gain clarity

Typical Education

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

Open to this position being remote.

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First American invests in its employees' development and well-being, empowers them to provide superior customer service and encourages them to serve the communities where they live and work. First American is committed to diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.