Junior Developer

Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (Optimal) is a leading non-partisan public policy research firm that conducts studies and provides technical assistance on health care, education, welfare, housing, community development, and related subjects. Our mission is to provide policy makers with rigorous and timely studies that enable our clients (including federal, state, and local government agencies, as well as private foundations) to improve public well-being.

The Junior Developer will provide custom application development and application/system support as required to multiple projects within the company. The developer will design application specific user interfaces and code functionality, perform tests and remediate issues following the testing process, and provide production support for .NET applications as required.
Work experience and job skills requirements:

• Experience in a technical support/application development using the Microsoft .NET technology stack (C# / .NET, ASP.NET MVC, Web APIs and Entity Framework) and SQL databases (Microsoft SQL Server or similar)
• Experience with HTML 5, jQuery and JavaScript
• Experience with Git, unit testing, debugging, Visual Studio, JIRA and any other tool used by developers on Microsoft Technology stack
• Understanding of database design concepts
• Experience with frontend design and development (Bootstrap, CSS etc.)
• Experience with web technologies and client/server architecture
• Experience in working with Agile software development methodology
• Superior troubleshooting and performance management skills
• Strong interpersonal communication and technical writing skills
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies

Education Requirements: Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent.