Design

You must be able to produce simple, maintainable, and expandable application designs using object oriented practices and standard design patterns. You will be expected to research open source software options and make recommendations according to our product requirements. You are expected to understand that specifications evolve and feature-creep is an unavoidable reality, and will be relied upon to design solutions that can be expanded and maintained without impacting earlier work too severely.

Documentation

You will be responsible for documenting your design solutions in our online Wiki. We use a “drill down” documentation approach to keep our documentation as concise and readable as possible. A typical documentation cycle starts with the program manager stubbing document sections after design review, and then continues with you composing a process outline and uploading any appropriate flowcharts. The documentation is finished during and after development as the developer implements the design and makes any necessary notes and revisions.

Implementation

You are expected to personally implement your design solutions up to and including the interface definition level. After this, your level of involvement with implementation (writing code) will vary according to our workload and your own preference. There will be times when you will be asked to delegate implementation details to other developers so you can move on to the next project, and other times when you may be asked to pitch in with implementation and code review on high priority projects.

Mentoring

You may be responsible for training and supervising one or two entry level developers. If you would enjoy passing on your wisdom to the next generation of developers and have the managerial and teaching skills to be a good mentor we would love to give you that opportunity. You will be involved in every step of this process, from recruitment to evaluation to developing a career path for your apprentice.