Senior Software Engineer-phila.gov

Description de l'entreprise

With a workforce of over 25,000 people, and opportunities in more than 1,000 different job categories, the City of Philadelphia is the fifth largest city in the United States and one of the largest employers in Southeastern Pennsylvania. As an employer, the City of Philadelphia operates through the guiding principles of service, integrity, respect, accountability, collaboration, diversity and inclusion. Through these principles, we strive to effectively deliver services, to resolve the challenges facing our city, and to make Philadelphia a place where all of our residents have the opportunity to reach their potential.

The Office of Innovation & Technology (OIT) is the central IT agency for the City of Philadelphia headed by the Chief Information Officer (CIO). OIT oversees all major information and communications technology initiatives for the City of Philadelphia - increasing the effectiveness of the information technology infrastructure, where the services provided are advanced, optimized, and responsive to the needs of the City of Philadelphia's businesses, residents, and visitors.

OIT responsibilities include: identifying the most effective approach for implementing new information technology directions throughout city government; improving the value of the city's technology assets and the return on the city's technology investments; ensuring data security continuity; planning for continuing operations in the event of disruption of information technology or communications services; and supporting accountable, efficient and effective government across every city department, board, commission and agency.

Over 7 million people visit the City of Philadelphia's website, phila.gov, every year. Whether they're looking for information on the Philadelphia Marathon, checking whether trash pickup is on-schedule, looking for after school activities, or applying for public assistance programs, for many Philadelphians, their experience on phila.gov represents the image they have of government. For the past few years, we've been working closely with content creators, City colleagues, and the public to rewrite service information and to design features that better meet the needs of City residents.

You can see the progress la.gov.

This role sits within OIT's reimagined Software Engineering group. Created in 2019, OIT Software Engineering team is a talented group of engineers reshaping how the City develops, procures, and maintains custom software. Our projects have a huge range and a huge impact - from operating and extending the front door to the City , to building the City's Campaign Finance tracking system to building world class GIS applications like atlas.phila.gov.

We're developing more standards and frameworks for ourselves and for other developers to use; we use modern tooling and are a highly collaborative, productive team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll join the City's internal development shop and work on critical business and resident-facing applications. You'll work alongside UX professionals, content strategists and other members of the Digital Services team. Your leadership will guide the implementation of City standards for phila.gov.

You'll be

primarily responsible for building out new features on our new headless CMS, Directus and the frontend PhilaUI Vue.js applicatio as we migrate from our current Wordpress implementation.

You'll get to work alongside stakeholders in a variety of different departments as you help design solutions-both from a tech and process perspective. As a Senior Engineer, you'll be expected to help mentor other engineers who aren't as far in their careers and provide a safe space for code reviews and help foster a collaborative work environment. You'll join a city government that has the largest Git Hub organization among citie(), works in the open, and leverages open-source tools and cloud infrastructure to improve the experience of interacting with City government online.

Description du poste

Essential Functions

This job is primarily a full-stack role, with the opportunity to work across the stack to fill in gaps. You'll be collaborating with other team members to design and develop new features and APIs for phila.gov as well as doing UI development. You'll be responsible for reviewing the code of other team members in our Git flow process, writing unit tests, monitoring features you've launched, and supporting the Word Press platform you and others have contributed to.

You'll also be responsible for working with stakeholders at OIT and other departments as part of our agile software development process.

Qualifications

* We care more about what you can do than where you learned how to do it. That said, completion of a bachelor's degree program at an accredited college or university with major course work in Computer Science, a related engineering field, or equivalent experience is a good foundation for the work. Boot camps or alternative pathways are…