Application Developer

Are you a self-driven person looking to advance your career as a high-impact player on a team? If so, we have an exciting challenge for you and your future!

At HP Hood, we celebrate our differences. Our diversity of people, backgrounds, experiences, thoughts and perspectives are fostered to create an inclusive work environment. We are at our best when we respect and value each other – One Team One Company!

Our culture is built on value commitments to innovation, quality, results, integrity, community, people, and collaboration that fosters a strong employee engagement, teamwork, safety and wellness. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, vision, wellness programs, employee discounts, 401k matches, tuition reimbursement, ongoing development, advancement opportunities and more. This position is also eligible for our bonus program.

Founded in 1846, today HP Hood is one of the largest and most trusted food and beverage manufacturers in the United States. Our portfolio of national and super-regional brands and licensed products includes Hood, Heluva Good, Lactaid, Blue Diamond Almond Breeze, Planet Oat, Hershey’s Milk & Milkshakes and more.

Job Summary

The Custom Development team in Lynnfield, MA is looking for an Application Developer with passion for learning, developing high quality software, solving complex problems and becoming part of a smart and innovative team. Are you able to balance a variety of tasks related to requirements definition, software system design, development, testing, trouble-shooting, and maintenance? Interact with multi-functional teams from the product definition stage through product release? Then you're exactly who we're looking for!

The incumbent must demonstrate strong technical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work on development projects independently and ensure that business specifications and end user requirements are met and projects are delivered on time. The incumbent must have the ability to provide effective peer support and help troubleshoot complex issues.

This role has some hybrid flexibility however the candidate must be able to work on-site at the Lynnfield, MA office.

This position is unfortunately, not eligible for visa sponsorship opportunities.

Essential Duties Responsibilities:

• Plan, test and develop applications for cross-departmental needs
• Development and support of ASP.NET MVC project applications
• Development and support of Angular/.NET Core project applications
• Collaborates with other team members to implement websites and other web projects. 

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field required.
• 3-5 years’ experience in the following skills…
  • C# programming using Visual Studio
  • Experience with Entity Framework (or other ORM mappers)
  • Ability to read and write Microsoft T-SQL scripts as required 
  • TFS/Azure DevOps (i.e. git)
  • Proficient in JavaScript/ECMA 5.6, HTML5, CSS3
  • Solid or primary experience with Microsoft MVC and Razor pages
  • Experience developing and consuming RESTful web services
  • Experience with dependency injection (necessary for Sitecore).
  • Angular/TypeScript Development
  • Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and complexity theory
  • Knowledge of operating systems including Windows and Linux
  • IT/Digital experience working with enterprise level CMS/ecommerce solutions like Sitecore/Optimizely

Skills and Competencies:

• Solid organizational (detail oriented), analytical, customer service, written and oral communication skills.
• Conceive and implement fully functional and high performing software solutions
• Tackle difficult problems and come up with innovative software solutions
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to improve our product, our process and our team
• Able to clearly express ideas and concepts both written and verbally
• Able to problem solve and understand engineering design tradeoffs
• Self-motivated
• Must be a team player and ability to produce high quality coding while adhering to coding best practices.

Optional Skills:

• Understanding and experience working with Agile Methodologies.
• Experience using Visual Studio, Laravel, angular, react, Vue, asp.net, and .net MVC a plus!
• Web site team authoring, team programming experience is preferred.
• Low code development
• SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) report generation.

HP Hood is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

Female/Minority/Veteran/Disabled

"VERVRAA Federal Contractor"