Job Description

SENIOR FULL STACK ENGINEER

Essential Functions

Software Design and Development:

1. Design and build accessible, responsive web applications using React and Python frameworks such as Django or Flask.
2. Develop secure application programming interfaces, integrations, database services, and reusable front-end and back-end components.
3. Translate data and analytical outputs into reliable interactive products that support residents, staff, and City leaders.
4. Make sound technical choices about architecture, performance, maintainability, and reuse within approved City standards.

Data Science and Analytics:

1. Parse complex datasets to understand patterns, trends, outliers, and opportunities to inform application development.
2. Ability to design visualizations and front-end components based on relevant data patterns.
3. Ensure applications reflect source-of-truth data sources and validated with robust QA/QC methods.
4. Implement innovative data science methods such as machine learning, natural language processing, and remote sensing.

Quality, Security, and Operations

1. Write maintainable code with automated tests, peer review, clear documentation, and version control.
2. Apply accessibility, privacy, cybersecurity, records, and responsible-use requirements throughout development.
3. Implement deployment, logging, monitoring, alerting, support, and recovery practices appropriate to each product.
4. Investigate defects and incidents, communicate impact, and deliver durable fixes.

Product Collaboration and Sustainment

1. Work with designers, applied data scientists, program managers, agency staff, and end users to define requirements and acceptance criteria.
2. Participate in discovery, prototyping, demonstrations, usability testing, and iterative improvement.
3. Prepare technical documentation, runbooks, release notes, and handoff materials and support training and long-term ownership.
4. Contribute reusable components, patterns, and lessons learned to OPI’s product practice.

EXPERIENCE

Five or more years of progressively responsible experience developing and maintaining full stack web applications, or an equivalent combination of professional, academic, and portfolio experience.

IV. REQUIRED KNOWLEDGES, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Knowledge of automated testing, version control, code review, deployment, monitoring, performance, security, and incident response.

Education – Bachelor’s Degree – Computer or Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field from an accredited college or university

VI. LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS AND CERTIFICATES

Not Applicable.

NOTE: Those eligibles who are under final consideration for appointment will be required to authorize the release of criminal conviction information.