Staff Software Developer

Staff Software Developer

Location: Kansas City, MO

Onsite Flexibility: Onsite

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract to Hire
• Contract Duration: 6 months
• Pay Rate: $48.00 $53.00 / Hour (USD)
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

The growth and evolution of infrastructure demands coupled with a rapidly changing technological landscape presents significant opportunities to those companies that have the focus and foresight to solve some of society's most complex challenges. One area of focus is equipping clients and the workforce with superior data-driven decision-making capability, creating the need to establish a technology position focused on full stack software development.

The Full Stack Developer will be tasked with executing projects and leading engineering teams to tackle key data-driven technology initiatives. This position will report to the Innovation and Development Manager and will work collaboratively with the national Innovation & Development team.

We are looking for a highly skilled computer programmer who is comfortable with both front and back-end programming. Responsibilities include participating in user interviews, developing and designing front end web user interfaces from a composable architecture, integrating existing data sets and models, developing and maintaining semantically driven object ontologies, and ensuring the responsiveness of applications, among other duties.

This position will be required to see out a project from conception to final product, requiring excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.

Key Responsibilities

• Participation in user interviews to understand technical and customer needs.
• Developing front end website architecture based on Palantir Foundry.
• Designing user interactions on web pages within Palantir Foundry Workshop.
• Developing back-end code logic that leverages semantic object linking (ontologies) within Palantir Foundry Pipeline Builder, Code Workbook, and Ontology Manager.
• Creating servers, databases, and datasets for functionality as needed.
• Ensuring health of data connections and pipelines (utilizing filesystem, JDBC, SFTP, and webhook).
• Ensuring conformance with security protocols and markings on sensitive data sets.
• Ensuring responsiveness of web applications developed on low code/no code solutions.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Seeing through projects from conception to finished product.
• Meeting both technical and customer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.
• Lead other engineers to develop features on your projects.

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge in programming languages and coding principles and procedures.
• Strong knowledge in web development framework.
• Strong attention to detail, facilitation, team building, collaboration, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work methodically and analytically in a quantitative problem-solving environment.
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills.
• Strong knowledge in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PPT).
• Ability to obtain applicable certifications.
• Team leadership experience.

Preferred Skills

• Palantir Foundry experience preferred.
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript preferred.
• Familiarity with JavaScript libraries such as Lodash, Math.js, Moment, Numeral, and es6-shim preferred.
• Proficiency with server-side languages for structured data processing; Python, PySpark, Java, Apache Spark, and SparkSQL preferred.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, and others preferred.
• Familiarity with analytical tools for business intelligence and data science such as Power BI, Jupyter, and R Studio preferred.
• Strong organizational and project management skills preferred.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or related field required.

Required Experience

• 4 years of relevant experience required.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

About the Client

This client is a 100% employee-owned infrastructure engineering, architecture, and construction firm with more than 125 years of history building critical infrastructure across energy, aviation, water, telecommunications, transportation, and healthcare sectors. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and operating from 75 offices across the country and internationally, the organization has grown to more than 14,500 employee-owners generating over $7.4 billion in annual revenue. Every full-time employee participates in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), creating a culture of accountability and shared outcomes that has earned a 4.2-star Glassdoor rating from more than 1,800 reviews, with 87% of employees recommending it as a workplace. Teams include civil and structural engineers, architects, environmental scientists, construction managers, program management professionals, and increasingly software developers and technology specialists driving data-driven innovation across complex, consequential projects.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-11272 Industry: Software Engineering

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