Overland Park, Kansas, 66210 United States

Start a Watco Career and Discover the Difference

Keep the world’s supply chain moving. That’s what the Watco team does every day at our short line railroads, switching sites, terminals, ports, and logistics hubs. Whether you’re at one of these locations or in a support-services role, there’s one thread that ties everyone together. We’re all on the same team. One Watco. 

Here’s what you can expect from Watco: 

• Award-winning culture recognized by Forbes and Newsweek
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Paid on-the-job training with peer trainers 
• Operations training at the Safe Performance Center in Birmingham, Alabama
• Leadership and development programs offered through Watco University 
• Career advancement opportunities

Senior Developer will be responsible to resolve problems through evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards. Ensure application design adheres to overall architecture blueprint. Your role includes analysis, design, development, integration to provide efficient and high-value enterprise architecture software solutions to our customers; with systems and applications spanning multiple departments. You are innovative, hold yourself to a high technical standard and support and coach other developers when they need a hand. You have at least 5 years of professional development experience, including some team leadership.

Qualifications & Skills

• Strong experience in design, development, documenting, testing, and debugging of new and existing software systems. You will be responsible for writing high-quality clean, efficient and well-documented code, using good programming practices in implementing various features and products in full-stack applications.
• Development frameworks .NET or .NET Core.
• Programming languages including but not limited to C#, Javascript / TypeScript.
• Web application frameworks Angular (or similar RxJS based webapp framework).
• Experience with Agile (Kanban) and Scrum methodologies and the ability to work in cross-functional teams.
• RESTful Web API’s.
• Version Control – Git.
• A relational database, like SQL Server.
• Excellent knowledge of Object-Oriented systems design and Application Development
• Evaluate and assess existing architecture and design, provide inputs on addressing challenges, evolve revised architecture and design addressing the gaps and challenges.
• Interface with our customers to discuss and refine product requirements, and to solicit clarifications and answer questions related to the features and apps you are developing. Serve as the technical leader for a software engineering team composed of both internal and contract engineers.
• Lead, mentor, exemplifying and teaching best practices, helping to solve problems, reviewing code. Strong collaboration skills with experience collaborating with people across various roles around the globe.

Soft Skills

• Customer Focused
• Great Communicator
• Problem Solver
• Leader
• Team Player
• Constant Learner

Preferred Qualifications

• Serverless technologies and Cloud Technologies including Azure cloud (app services, function apps, service bus, storage accounts, keyvault, etc.)
• Schemaless databases (like Azure table storage or MongoDB)
• Previous experience as a tech lead or team lead, mentoring junior developers.