KPA is a proven SaaS technology and services partner for corporate compliance and human resource professionals seeking opportunities to raise productivity, control expense, and mitigate financial and reputational risk via business process automation, improved safety and workplace compliance, and better HR practices. With KPA’s proven portfolio of end-to-end solutions and operational best practice clients can unlock opportunities to drive down costs, mitigate risk, and enhance the employee experience at a lower cost than clients can achieve internally.

Founded in 1986, KPA is owned by Providence Equity Partners, a top-tier private-equity company, and is focused on delivering SaaS solutions to the small and mid-size business (“SMB”) markets.

Are you up for the challenge of delivering cutting edge web based software based on the Microsoft Stack of technologies? Is solving business challenges in innovative and inventive ways with the newest tools and platforms how you would like to spend your days? Do you want to want to work with a team of developers and QA analysts that are all invested in producing great products? Are you looking for an opportunity for a stable work environment with reasonable work hours?

Position Description: As a member of the Technology team, the Senior Software Developer will play a crucial role in delivering modern, web based software based Angular and Microsoft Stack of technologies (Including Angular 6, REST API, .net CORE, Entity Framework core, SQL Server). Must be enthusiastic about mentoring, quality and unit testing, we aim to get it right the first time! The successful candidate has experience creating scalable solutions and delivering high quality software for KPA’s Software as a Service (SaaS) products.

The Software Developer will be responsible for the following:

In the first 2 weeks you will:

• Have a running development environment confirmed by successfully building the code base for the existing product.

• Accept, estimate, develop and test a set of low-priority defects associated with one product.

• Have the solutions peer reviewed and passed prior to check-in

In the first 30 days you will:

• Have a minimum of two features ready for delivery following the defined development process and deploy the features to production.

• Contribute towards the planning, tasking, execution and delivery as defined by an agile development environment that includes reporting time against tasks, estimation of effort, code reviews and commitment to delivery.

In the first 90 days you will:

• Demonstrate development productivity and quality on par with the other team members through the daily input of status information. All developed code will be highly scalable, high-quality, object-oriented, and comply with KPA standards.

• Demonstrate either the ability to design and develop a) rich user interfaces using standard compliant technologies, b) C# service/business/data layers and other distributed processing components, c) back-end tools to help with builds, deployments, troubleshooting.

In the first 6 months you will:

• Collaborate with team members, project managers, product managers and other senior executives on identifying and documenting the technical tasks.

• Contribute to the analysis, solution designs and implementations of major new system components

By the end of the first year you will have:

• Demonstrated functional knowledge of KPA’s SaaS platform to the point of leading feature development for multiple components of the platform

• Provide leadership to other team members on technology, design, and best practices.

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience

• Experience with .Net Stack - C# Visual Web Development, .net CORE, Entity Framework core, SQL Server (minimum of 5 years)

• Expert in REST architecture patterns

• Experience in enterprise software using Object Oriented programming, n-tier design, and service-oriented architecture

• Angular 6 experience highly desired, experience with SPA applications required (Rxjs and Reactive Forms)

• Experience developing and designing rich user experience (JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, CSS, HTML, XML) (minimum 5 years)

• Passionate about unit testing – Xunit and Jasmine frameworks

• Experience working in a scrum environment with well defined definition of done.

• Experience with Git or other source control systems.

• Creative and passionate about cutting edge technologies and continuous personal and team improvement, desire to serve as coach and mentor to more junior team members.

• Committed to deliver great software solutions, with a deep sense of personal ownership and passion for working with all types of Software Developers and QA Analysts

• Work ethic that corresponds with KPA’s core values: Integrity – Teamwork – Helpfulness – Excellence – Accountability

• Experience with build automation tools and continuous integration & continuous delivery (with VSTS/Azure DevOps a plus)

• Experience building applications in a cloud environment is a plus.

As a growing company KPA values its employees by supporting them with a full benefits package including:

- Medical

- Dental

- Vision

- Paid Time Off

- 401(k) match

- Life Insurance

- Short and long term disability insurance

With the stability of over 30 years of experience, we are growing rapidly as a major competitor in a fragmented $4B market and are adding innovative team members to drive this momentum.

With HQ located in Lafayette, CO our space provides both quiet work space and a collaborative environment. We are an easy commute for most of our team, with plentiful parking and an easy walk to the Lafayette YMCA, coffee shops, a brew pub, restaurants and a variety of childcare options.