Junior Software Developer Job Fort Worth area,Texas USA,Software Development

Job Summary

SCG Tech Solutions is seeking two Junior Software Developers to join our growing software engineering team in Fort Worth. The role contributes to the design, development, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement of software solutions that support real transportation and logistics operations.
We are looking for early-career engineers with strong software engineering fundamentals, sound problem-solving skills, curiosity, and professional accountability. We hire primarily for engineering fundamentals and expect candidates to be comfortable learning and working within a modern software stack. Company-specific technology, business context, and domain knowledge are developed through the work.

Technology Environment

Our engineering environment includes Python, Node.js, JavaScript/Type Script, React, HTTP/REST APIs, SQL and PostgreSQL, Git-based development, CI/CD, cloud platforms, observability, and AI-assisted software development. Depending on the project, developers may also work with geospatial data, mapping, routing, integrations, automation, and data-intensive applications.
Candidates are not expected to have professional experience with every technology listed. Strong fundamentals, experience with at least one modern programming language, and the ability to learn unfamiliar technologies are more important than matching the stack tool for tool.

Duties & Responsibilities

Clarify requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, assumptions, constraints, edge cases, and expected software behavior before implementation.

Design, implement, refactor, and maintain clear and reliable software using sound engineering principles and appropriate responsibility boundaries.

Build backend services, integrations, APIs, and user interfaces within SCG Tech Solutions' technology environment.

Create and maintain meaningful automated tests, debug systematically, and verify software behavior using evidence and testable hypotheses.

Work with application interfaces, relational data, validation, error handling, and basic data-quality safeguards.

Use version control and collaborative code review to support traceable, reviewable, and maintainable software changes.

Apply secure development and software configuration practices, including appropriate handling of credentials, secrets, access, dependencies, and environment-specific settings.

Participate in established CI/CD, build, test, deployment, monitoring, release, rollback, and production-support processes while using logs and operational evidence to understand software behavior.

Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly while independently understanding, verifying, testing, debugging, securing, refactoring, and explaining the resulting software.

Communicate technical decisions, assumptions, blockers, risks, and escalation needs clearly while collaborating with technical and business stakeholders and contributing to continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

Strong problem-solving and requirements reasoning, including the ability to identify assumptions, constraints, missing information, edge cases, and practical trade-offs.
Ability to write, read, debug, explain, and improve software using at least one modern programming language, with working knowledge of core software design principles.
Understanding of common data structures, basic algorithmic and complexity reasoning, and how software choices affect correctness and maintainability.
Understanding of software testing and debugging, including unit and integration testing and familiarity with Test-Driven Development principles.
Working knowledge of application interfaces, SQL, relational database concepts, data validation, and foundational web application concepts.
Working knowledge of version control and collaborative code review, plus basic understanding of software configuration, development environments, logs, deployment, and controlled software delivery.
Basic understanding of secure coding and the appropriate handling of credentials, sensitive information, dependencies, and access.
Ability to use AI-assisted development tools responsibly while understanding and validating the software produced.
Strong communication, accountability, curiosity, coachability, intellectual honesty, and willingness to learn from feedback.

Education

A completed bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, IT/IS with substantial software-development coursework, or a related field is strongly preferred. Equivalent…