Senior Software Developer

Job Description

About Creative Realities

Creative Realities, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREX) is a full-service, digital signage solutions company with a passion and purpose of connecting brands and people in spaces and places they love. We design, develop, deploy, and maintain digital experiences that are contextually relevant, omni-channel, and specific to the physical environment. Our approach is consultative, tech-agnostic, and solution centric. Our capabilities are end-to-end with the ability to deploy at scale - whether its thousands of locations or a single flagship experience. We specialize in key verticals including Automotive, C-Store, QSR, Heath Care, Retail, and Sports & Entertainment with extensive experience in how digital transforms these environments. Our purpose-built CMS software and ad-revenue / monetization platforms are considered best in class and serve as the backbone for successful installations and ongoing support. Visit www.CRI.com for our full story.

About The Position

The Senior Software Developer will work as an integral part of an experienced high-performance team, designing and building reliable, scalable, complex web applications. The applications will require your full stack skills to work with Node.JS, MongoDB, AWS Infrastructure, and other state of the art development technologies. You’ll need to be able to understand complex, multi-component software systems and how they work together to design and construct reliable, scalable, and innovative solutions to deliver the world’s best digital signage systems. You’ll work with an innovative and experienced team and have the opportunity to be creative and innovative while building the best software in the industry.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal applicant is an experienced full stack software developer for cloud-based software applications. In this role, you will be responsible for the following key tasks:

• Make important design and architecture decisions but also take direction from the system architect to build software to meet requirements and deliver timely, high-quality output.
• Bring innovation and creative skills to the team to produce state of the art applications and systems and solve a variety of novel and complex problems through well designed software made for large scale enterprise use.
• Deliver well designed, reliable, and requirements compliant software and work with quality assurance to ensure that released products have open issues identified and corrected prior to release.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Full stack software development for cloud-based software applications.
• Design and construct software with documented source code that meets requirements, is constructed for reliability and maintainability, and is complete within estimated timelines.
• Bring innovation and creative skills to the team to produce state of the art systems.
• Work with QA to ensure that released products are fully understood and have issues corrected prior to release.
• Work with system architects and product managers as necessary to refine product designs and ensure stories are well executed through an end to end understanding of their purpose.
• Design and implement custom features and modifications to existing production products as needed.
• Perform advanced, top tier diagnostic procedures for complex issues found in distributed cloud-based SaaS products.
  
  

Experience

• Languages and Frameworks: Node.JS, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 - required
• Experience working with APIs such as: REST, JSON, XML, SOAP. – required
• Database: Advanced MongoDB/NoSQL design and use skills – required
• Cloud Technologies: Experience working with AWS – required
• Cloud Certifications: AWS or similar cloud certifications (Cloud Architect, etc.) – desirable
• Structured Programming skills – understanding of and experience with complex object-oriented design concepts and excellent software development practices - required
• Experience with HTML5 specific technologies – required
• Proven ability to design and build reliable, stable applications at scale. Experience working with large scale, distributed systems is desired.
• Proven ability to construct high quality, scalable UI components that provide excellent user experiences – required
• Experience with automated DevOps and rapid deployment production models - desired
• Excellent communication skills – required
• Good project and time management skills – required
  
  

Education

• BS Degree in Engineering / Computer Science / Math. Degree required, advanced technical degree desirable.
• 6 years of development experience in full stack development
  
  

Key Performance Indicators

Key measures used to evaluate performance and effectiveness in this position.

• Deliverables meet technical specifications
• Accurately estimates effort and delivers products on time
• Is flexible with adding features to existing code bases and frameworks
• Designs and documents code with minimal bugs in a way that is supportable and maintainable for themselves and others
• Communicates well with other developers, QA, and support teams
• Maintains good coding practices and properly uses repository tools
  
  

Competencies

• Problem Solving/Analysis.
• Technical Capacity.
• Communication Proficiency and Teamwork.
• Time Management.
  
  

Core Values

The ideal candidate represents these six core values:

• Passionate We are a group of passionate people. This is the best way to describe TEAM CRI. We work hard and we are proud of the results we produce each and every day. And, we have some fun along the way!
• Respectful We value diversity and unique contributions. We foster a trusting, open and inclusive environment. We treat our clients, partners and our team in a manner that reflects these values.
• Do the Right Thing We do what we say we will do. Our actions shall always be fully transparent and genuine. Our dealings with clients, co-workers and partners must always be conducted with honesty.
• Helps First We are stronger when we work together. We help first, no matter what—whether it’s with our clients or our internal teams.
• Nimble Minded When conventional thinking and processes fail, we want to be the first to provide fresh ideas and solutions. We break through adversity and respond quickly.
• Expects Excellence What we deliver is what we will be measured on. We are committed to getting it right.
  
  

Benefits

• Company paid individual portion of medical, Life, Long and Short-Term Disability insurances.
• Access to participate in company dental and vision insurance programs.
• 401(k) program, including company paid match of up to 3% of annual salary.
• Paid time off and holiday pay.
  
  

Thank you for your interest in Creative Realities. We look forward hearing from you!