Software Developer

JAARS is looking for a talented Software Developer to join our software engineering team to create applications that serve the mission transportation community. We build and maintain innovative iOS, iPadOS and cloud-hosted SaaS applications for use in support of mission work around the world.

Your primary focus will be working with a team to develop and maintain these high-end applications.

Your responsibilities will include new development, app performance improvement, new app features, and supporting applications.

To ensure success as an JAARS Software Developer, you should have a strong working knowledge of iOS Frameworks, be proficient in Swift, SwiftUI, the Xcode IDE, PHP, and Javascript. You'll need be able to work effectively as part of a dispersed team.

Position Responsibilities

Position's Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement new software programs.
• Maintain, develop and implement new features for existing software programs.
• Communicate clearly with other members of the development team.
• Write technical reference and end user documentation for software programs.
• Learn new software development and implementation skills as required.
• Under direction from management (Product Manager or his superior), interact with third party vendors (AWS, GitHub, Jira etc) to configure services needed to implement and support software developed by JAARS Inc.

Position Requirements

Educational/Formal Training Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science, related degree, or equivalent experience

Required Qualifications, Certifications, Experience, Etc.:

• Excellent proficiency in PHP (required)
• Excellent database/SQL proficiency (required)
• Able to quickly analyze and learn a large existing codebase (required)
• Javascript proficiency (highly preferred)
• HTML5 & CSS (highly preferred)
• Yii Framework proficiency (preferred)
• iOS Framework proficiency (preferred)
• Swift proficiency (preferred)
• A deep and growing walk with the Lord Jesus that includes your personal spiritual growth and the ability to support others in their spiritual growth.
• Embrace the vision, mission, and core values of JAARS.

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