Senior Applications Developer

Samaritan's Purse
Boone, North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 02/12/2018
Categories: Information Technology
Job Type: Full-Time
Employee Workplace: Unspecified
Job Description:

Samaritan's Purse is a non-denominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. For over 40 years, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ. If you are searching for a Career with Impact come see how we serve! Samaritan’s Purse has an opening for a Senior Application Developer in our Information Technology Department.

 

Description of Job duties:

  • Evaluate current application stack and make recommendations for improvements.
  • Guide and collaborate with team of developers and designers to design, develop, test and support web, line-of business/desktop, and mobile applications.
  • Implement a broad set of services and API's to power web and mobile applications.
  • Implement web applications that access internal and external services.
  • Optimize and scale applications and services to meet the needs of our donors.
  • Translate UX/UI specifications and wireframes to web.
  • Assist in development of continuous integration/continuous delivery strategy within development group.
  • Work as part of a team of developers to develop applications for the web, line of business/desktop applications, mobile (iOS, Android, Barcode/POS).
  • Contribute to documentation of API's and applications.
  • Perform performance tuning and testing.

 

Job requirements:

  • Designing and implementing well-structured and scalable web services and front ends
  • Ability to understand a variety of programming languages and patterns and no fear of tackling new languages, frameworks or technologies
  • Good communication and organization skills and the ability to manage large projects with minimal supervision
  • Collaborate well with a small team of other developers
  • Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Computer Science or related area of study; and computer systems training certificate indicative of related training; and five+ years’ experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Twelve credit hours of college-level Biblical studies strongly preferred. 

 

Valued Skills:

  • HTML/CSS/JS
  • GIT
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB)
  • SQL: MySQL, SQL Server
  • Proficiency in Linux
  • Docker
  • CI/CD (Jenkins, Hudson, etc.)
  • C#
  • Typescript
  • Familiarity with .Net (c# specifically) or java
  • PHP
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Open Stack
  • Web application security: OWASP, Authentication/Authorization, JWT, OAUTH/OPENID

 

Employees who work in the U.S. get to take advantage of the following benefits:

  • Medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Long term and short term disability insurance
  • Term Life insurance
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan
  • Ten paid holidays
  • Ten or more days of vacation depending on years of service
  • Ten sick/personal days
  • Staff discounts at retail stores and service providers in the Boone area and nationwide
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About Samaritan's Purse

The story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37) gives a clear picture of God's desire for us to help those in desperate need wherever we find them. After describing how the Samaritan rescued a hurting man whom others had passed by, Jesus told His hearers, "Go and do likewise."    Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ. For 40 years, Samaritan's Purse has done our utmost to follow Christ's command by going to the aid of the world's poor, sick, and suffering. We are an effective means of reaching hurting people in countries around the world with food, medicine, and other assistance in the Name of Jesus Christ. This, in turn, earns us a hearing for the Gospel, the Good News of eternal life through Jesus Christ.   Our emergency relief programs provide desperately needed assistance to victims of natural disaster, war, disease, and famine. As we offer food, water, and temporary shelter, we meet critical needs and give people a chance to rebuild their lives. Our community development and vocational programs in impoverished villages and neighborhoods help people break the cycle of poverty and give them hope for a better tomorrow. We impact the lives of vulnerable children through educational, feeding, clothing, and shelter programs that let them know they are not forgotten.   Our Operation Christmas Child shoe box gift ministry and The Greatest Journey discipleship program demonstrate God's love in a tangible way to needy children around the world, and together with the local church worldwide, share the good news of Jesus Christ.We provide first-class treatment in the Name of the Great Physician through our World Medical Mission projects, as well as supplying mission hospitals with much needed equipment and supplies.Positions are available at our international headquarters in Boone, NC, throughout the U.S., and around the world. Visit our website at samaritanspurse.org for more information and to see a list of all current openings. If you are searching for a career with impact come see how we serve.

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