Software Engineer

Software Engineer role at Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale

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$65,000.00/hr - $70,000.00/hr

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer

DEPARTMENT: IT

REPORTS TO: Director of IT / Manager of Church Management Solutions

STATUS: Salary Exempt

HOURS: Full Time (45+)

LOCATION: Fort Lauderdale

At Calvary Chapel, we are called to make disciples of Jesus Christ by connecting people to God, people to people, and people to outreach. Our vision is to reach our community and change our world. As a staff member, it’s not what we do, it's who we are.

• You enjoy architecting, designing, developing, testing, training, and deploying software systems that are leveraged for extending the ministries of the church.
• You are passionate about great technologies and staying on the leading edge of development practices.
• You love to create tools that address the needs of support and ministry teams.

• Convinced a relationship with Jesus changes everything in a person’s life.
• Committed to keeping your family as your first ministry.
• Dedicated in your personal study of God’s Word.
• Consistently placing a high priority on worship and your personal prayer life.
• An excellent and generous steward of your personal finances.
• Obedient to God to take a Sabbath and make space for soul-keeping.
• Deeply compassionate towards people who are in need or hurting.
• Excited about global missions and local outreach – you want to change the world.
• A part of a healthy friendship community and accountability circle.
• Willing to give up personal pleasures and freedoms in order to live a life above reproach and that is aligned with our Leadership Covenant.
• An expert in the use of Microsoft Visual Studio and support development languages for the development of enterprise level software.
• Fluent in functional and object-oriented programming languages.
• A persistent, creative problem solver.

• Develop software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with end-users, studying systems flow, data usage and work processes, investigating problem areas, and following the software development lifecycle.
• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis, recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Work in close partnership with the Data Team and support/ministry teams in determining process improvements, best practices, and developing new ones as necessary.
• Participate in the core project team tasked with maintaining and enhancing the functionality and integration of the church’s ChMS. You will be responsible for project management, deployment, software development and internal training tasks related to the ChMS.
• Help ensure the quality and integrity of the data in Calvary Chapel’s varied databases, and help with the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analysis, dashboards, software and tools, etc. to assist with key leadership decisions.
• Assist with software integration efforts to address other ministry requirements. This includes integration of ChMS with Accounting software, Human Resources Management Systems, Point-of-sale solutions, etc.

• Excellent organizational, technical, and interpersonal skills.
• Spiritual gifts of: administration, discernment and service.
• Excellent interpersonal skills for relating effectively with staff members, leadership, church attendees, volunteers, and vendors.
• Knowledge and experience developing software using enterprise database systems such as Microsoft or Oracle SQL Server. Significant experience writing SQL Stored Procedures, Functions, Queries and reports.
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, provide estimates and meet production deadlines.
• Experience with professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations.
• Knowledge of applicable…