Job: Full-Stack Web Developer (IT Business Systems Analyst Sr)

In a nutshell

We are hiring a software developer to join our team at Austin Transportation Data & Technology Services. We’re looking for someone who is curious, hard-working, and excited to leverage modern technologies and practices to build high-quality government products.

This is a full-time employee (FTE) position with standard City of Austin benefits.

Apply for this job via austincityjobs.org.

About Data & Technology Services

Data & Technology Services is a division of the City of Austin Transportation Department. We embrace progressive civic tech values including open source technology, agile development, and user-centered design to build impactful products with Austin’s mobility planners, engineers, technicians and staff.

We use a wide range of modern tools to deliver solutions to our users. This includes Knack, a no-code workflow management service, along with enterprise platforms like PowerBI and ArcGIS. We also have a team of developers who build custom software when out-of-the-box doesn’t cut it. We embrace mature open source frameworks, with an eye towards maintainability and long-term stability. We love web mapping, and we champion open data across the City of Austin.

What is it like to work on the Data & Technology Services team?

You’ll be working alongside people who care deeply about what they do and are driven to tackle the hard problems that city government and Austinites face every day. We’re a small, growing team, and you’ll have a chance to make an immediate impact. We’re going to trust your opinion and expect you to help us make the right decisions. You’ll be empowered to dive into our processes, test new tools, and give your thoughts on how we can do better.

We are only a small part of Austin Transportation. You’ll have a chance to work with brilliant colleagues, many of them renowned experts in their fields. You’ll learn firsthand how the City of Austin runs.

We will have the flexibility to work from home up to three days a week or work from our beloved office at 8700 Cameron Road. You’ll need to live in central Texas to take this job.

What products will you be working on?

You’ll have the chance to work on ATD’s growing portfolio of products ranging from data visualizations to complex analytics and mapping tools. Some of the products you’ll get to work on include:

• Moped — ATD’s platform to manage Austin’s complete portfolio of mobility-related infrastructure projects. Help us build user-friendly features that make it easy for staff to maintain accurate project data and build integrations with existing platforms to eliminate data conflicts and redundancy.
• Vision Zero Crash Data System — ATD’s single source of record for pedestrian, bicycle, and shared mobility crashes and investigations. Help design and build dashboards and maps to facilitate data analysis.

What will you do?

• You’ll work closely with other software developers and product managers, building and deploying user stories in agile fashion.
• You’ll participate in two week sprint cycles and sprint planning meetings where your work will be recognized and you’ll receive immediate feedback from end users and stakeholders.
• You’ll design and develop modern software solutions using React (Javascript), Python, GraphQL, RESTful APIs, and geospatial data.
• You’ll collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams of transportation engineers, city planners, systems analysts, and software developers.
• You’ll set standards for future technology projects at ATD (e.g. coding style guides, linting, Continuous Integration and Delivery).
• You’ll refactor frontend and/or backend code, with an eye towards stability and long-term maintainability.
• You’ll contribute to open source software projects using Github for collaboration and code review.

What we’re looking for…

• Professional experience writing code for software applications and services
• Demonstrated ability to work with and support cross-functional project teams
• Ability to evaluate languages, frameworks, and tools to solve problems while minimizing the accumulation of technical debt
• Ability to quickly become familiar with emerging technologies

Ready to apply?

Apply for this job via austincityjobs.org by Sunday, August 20th. https://www.austincityjobs.org/postings/90653

*No wonder the City of Austin made number nine on Forbes list of America’s Best Employers. 🙌 🏊‍♂️🏆

Our Software Engineering Guiding Principles:

• Open by default. Hard problems are solved through collaboration and diverse community. We use and build open source code by default. And we evangelize our methods and practices across government.
• Assume positive intent. Communication is hard. By assuming our peers want what is best, we believe we can find the best in them.
• Strong opinions weakly held. It’s important to have confidence and passion in our arguments. And we believe It’s also important to consider that you may be wrong and that all disagreements should be honest and respectful. We work from an understanding that everyone has different, though complementary, problem solving styles.
• Balance short term wins and long term outcomes. We believe that every technical decision has alternative solutions and we must balance between shipping quickly and shipping cautiously. We think through long-term possibilities, opportunities, and consequences for our short term goals.
• Default to action. We believe in the cycle of Learning and Doing to move projects and ideas forward.
• Everybody has something to teach. We believe that teaching compassionately helps us learn. We all have room to grow along multiple axis of skills. We believe our team members aren’t expected to know everything, and we support them when they are stuck.
• Learning is ongoing. We believe that passionate curiosity drives exceptional work. There are no such thing as experts, only fast learners.
• Coding should be fun. The best work comes from a place of passion. When inspiration strikes we want to encourage each other to build cool things.