NYC Department of Finance (DOF) is responsible for administering the tax revenue laws of the city fairly, efficiently, and transparently to instill public confidence and encourage compliance while providing exceptional customer service.

The Finance Information Technology (FIT) Division designs, builds, and supports all facets of DOF’s computer systems, including hardware, software, applications, infrastructure, telephone, and data security. FIT delivers and administers tax-related payment programs for the City of New York by providing the information technology solutions needed to achieve its mission of collecting revenue while ensuring an efficient and improved customer experience. FIT is also responsible for the systems and websites which enable citywide payments, land records, property assessment, parking adjudications, customer service, and the Sheriff’s public safety work

FIT is seeking a highly experienced Software Developer with extensive knowledge of application integration, to join our team. Once on board, the selected candidate will contribute to the overall development of high-quality software with a primary focus on hands-on designing, developing and testing of inbound and outbound integrations with our core system of record, internal and external applications, systems and data streams. By fostering a collaborative environment and removing obstacles, the candidate will help developers write and test code that aligns technical efforts with business goals before the changes are pushed to source control. The candidate will also be responsible for successful delivery of applications built on low-code platforms.

The Software Developer, Integration Specialist's responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

-Expertise working with low-code platforms and their integration capabilities.
-Development of web services, batch processing scripts, file transfers, and other integration methods.
-Design and development complex low-code applications, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned with DOF's business objectives. Ensure that applications have a strong emphasis on integration and fit in with DOF's overall low-code product strategy utilizing frameworks such as Process Models, Rules, Expressions, SAIL (Self-Assembling Interface Layer), and custom plug-ins and other out of the box tools.
-Identify opportunities to optimize development processes and enhance efficiency through the effective use of low-code platforms and automation. Manage availability, latency, and efficiency of the product by engineering reliability into the solution. Contribute to application performance analysis and system tuning.
-Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation.
-Build automation to prevent problem recurrence, Champion quality-first culture.
-Troubleshoot, investigate, and diagnose incidents using advanced tracing, alerting, and log analysis.
-Share best practices with fellow software developers on the team. Foster a culture of learning and growth. Perform application and code reviews, providing constructive feedback on quality, design and implementation that help ensure that applications meet high standards of performance and reliability.
-Ensure that software products and solutions are appropriately tested to meet functional (usability) and technical (performance) requirements. Create test cases, test scripts and defect reports. Execute test scripts and document progress and results. Collaborates with business analysts to understand business requirements. Collaborate with technical teams to understand application capabilities, environment set up and defect fixes.
-Drives improvement initiatives using creative collaboration techniques, emerging methodologies and automation tools.
-Effectively articulates project nuances and complexities to City executives, Agency Heads, Assistant Agency Heads, City business partners, and other stakeholders while being responsive and sensitive to underlying politics.
-Recommends and manages the application of a specific methodology or technology on IT projects or advocates for exceptions to established practices to account for complexities and achieve project objectives.

Additional Information:

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

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1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position; or,
2. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" above.

-7 + years of experience building and delivering enterprise-grade software applications in a high-volume or critical production service environment, with a primary focus on integration technologies. -Comprehensive understanding of production environments such as application servers, web servers, databases. -Demonstrated mastery of one or more low-code platforms like Appian, Mendix, Microsoft Power Platform or Salesforce, including their advanced and integration capabilities. -Experience with integration of low-code solutions with other systems and services using APIs such as REST and SOAP, JDBC connections. Recent experience in a modern programming language such as Java, Python, C++, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, XML, XSL, etc. -Possess a strong understanding of underlying technical concepts like APIs, databases, data exchange formats (e.g., JSON, XML), and expert proficiency in Java, JavaScript, Spring, JPA, JDBC, Hibernate, React, Gradle, and Git is crucial for complex solutions. -Possess a solid understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC), including design, development, testing, and deployment, as well as familiarity with DevOps practices like source control management and CI/CD pipelines. -Knowledge of administration and servers such as JBOSSWebSphereWebLogic etc. -Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns to write software in a cloud infrastructure environment, using tools such as: Python, Go, Java, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, RDBMS, No-SQL DBs, etc. -Strong verbal and written communication skills experience with customer interaction, requirements analysis, and presentations. -Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and designing application solutions using low-code platforms. -Familiarity with networking and security best practices in the cloud. -Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Analytics, Machine Learning, Google Cloud, Application Integration, Database, Developer Tools, Management & Governance, and Elastic Containers is a plus but not mandatory.

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.

New York City Residency is not required for this position

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.