Understanding that people are the foundation for success, the City of Irvine offers a workplace culture that embraces Humility, Innovation, Empathy, Passion, and Integrity. Apply your passion for public service in the City of Irvine, nationally ranked for safety, educational institutions, business enterprises, and quality of life, by joining our One Irvine team!The City of Irvine seeks a creative Application Developer to design and code functional software programs and applications for the departments and implement enhancements. The selected individual must have a strong learning aptitude and willingness to learn new technologies.
Your Impact

• Administer, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot enterprise systems and related server and client-side processes.
• Administer relational databases and reporting.
• Evaluate, develop, and recommend well-designed code using best practices and industry standards and is compatible with all devices.
• Evaluate new and enhanced approaches to deliver modern IT services and solutions.
• Integrate third party software and data from various back-end services, databases, and sources.
• Perform unit and integration testing.
• Troubleshoot, debug, maintain, and improve existing application functionality and code.
• Develop quality technical documentation on processes, solutions, and programs.
• Provide advice and guidance on a wide range and variety of IT issues.
• Keep abreast of latest industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure applications remain current and competitive.
• This position will be filled as an Information Technology Specialist II with the working title of Application Developer.

• Strong analytical thinker with excellent troubleshooting and creative problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Exceptional customer service skills.
• Ability to manage a project from initiation to close.
• Experience with ServiceNow administration and development.
• Experience with Workday administration and development.
• Experience using application development tools such as MS Visual Studio, Postman, GitHub, or MS Dev Ops.
• Extensive knowledge of programming languages and web services including API, PHP, C#, .NET Core, CSS, cross-browser compatibility, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, REST, SOAP, Python, and web user interface design.
• Knowledge of database design, best practices, and structured query language.
• Proficiency with Web Content Management Systems such as Drupal and WordPress.
• Proficiency in Git or DevOps for version control, merging code, managing branches and releases.
• Experience with Windows and Linux environments.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture, software design, and programming principles.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or closely related field.
• Five (5) years of information technology experience, with one those years acting in a lead or expert capacity performing a variety of progressively responsible technical or analytical tasks for computer systems or services in one or more functional area or a closely related or emerging information technology field or any combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge, skills, and abilities.