Application Developer
Full Time • Portland, ME
We provide management and technology services to public and private sector client. The NCG Team comprised of professionals who bring specific and demonstrated expertise to every engagement by delivering business value through technology.
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Bonus based on performance
- Competitive salary
- Dental insurance
- Employee discounts
- Health insurance
- Opportunity for advancement
- Paid time off
- Training & development
- Vision insurance
Application Developer
About Northcross Group
Northcross Group (NCG) is a professional services firm specializing in merger and acquisition integrations, system modernization, and compliance programs for clients in the private and public sectors. We provide industry-specific business solutions and understand the importance of providing the same level of care to the people who will use it and the underlying data. These fundamentals—technology, data, and people—are all a part of the equation for success. We work with clients in the banking/finance, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, technology, and federal markets.
NCG develops tooling and automated platforms to support its professional services practices and is in the process of deploying a SaaS platform that will make some of its tooling available to broader markets. We have an internal development team that develops, maintains, and continuously improves our automation.
Opportunity Description
NCG’s AppDev Team is seeking an experienced developer with demonstrable experience delivering user-centric applications for business users. This is an exciting opportunity to work with product owners, user focus groups and front- and back-end developers to produce intuitive and fun to use business applications in a DevOps environment.
The position will be based out of either NCG’s Portland, Maine, Marquette, Michigan, or Arlington, Virgina offices.
Role & Responsibilities
We are looking for a hands-on Developer specializing in front-end development. The role will focus on designing and developing interactive applications that support and drive user interaction for business function applications. The role is part of NCG’s AppDev Team.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle from initial specification through design, development, testing, and launching
- Applying human factors and usability considerations into application design
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders to capture and develop fit-for-purpose application functions.
- Big Picture Awareness: Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure each feature contributes to strategic goals and aligns with user needs.
- Anticipate how decisions impact metrics such as ease of use and data integrity
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
- Maintain a strong understanding of how individual features, user interactions, and backend data management contribute to the overarching business objectives
- Create and maintain software documentation
- Collaborate with the creative team to match visual design intent
- Engage with internal and external clients to ensure successful audience adoption
- Keep abreast of industry best practices and implement
- Participate in NCG initiatives and contribute positively to our team environment
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor's degree
- At least 4 years of application development experience
- Demonstrable professional experience with software engineering practices for the full software development lifecycle, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, testing and operations
- Excellent written and verbal communication and exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to maintain a strategic perspective, recognizing how each element of an application impacts the business, user engagement, and decision-making processes
- Self-motivator with ability to determine appropriate next steps
- Demonstrable knowledge of user interface (UI) design
- Demonstrable experiences with and skill demonstration in:
- Front-end development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Work with a JavaScript framework like React, Vue, or Angular
- Back-end development using web frameworks such as Express (Node.js), Django (Python), or Spring (Java)
- Developing web applications with SOA, RESTful, and/or MVC architectures
- Mobile App development
- Relational database development skills (MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgresSQL)
- Development using React.js and/or React Native
- Component libraries including MUI/Material-UI, React Bootstrap, Semantic UI
- A lower-level language like Java or C#
- Basic DevOps, deploying and maintaining client projects
- Programming knowledge in SQL, especially within runtime environments like Node.js
- Frontend and backend testing frameworks integrated in a CI environment (Cypress, Artillery, SonarQube, Jest)
Benefits
At NCG, we have a commitment to excellence driven by continuous improvement across all areas of our business. We value our team members and offer competitive benefits, work/life balance, and opportunities for advancement. Benefits include:
- Competitive salary
- Employer-paid Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Employer contributing 401(k) Retirement Benefits
- Employer provided Life Insurance and Short- & Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Three weeks paid time off
- Eleven paid holidays
- Tuition and education benefits
To Apply
Please send a resume and cover letter to careers@northcrossgroup.com
Qualified applicants must undergo a successful background check. NCG is an equal opportunity employer.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Northcross Group (NCG) is a cybersecurity and system integration consulting firm that works with clients in critical infrastructure industries across the US and internationally. NCG is headquartered in Portland, Maine with offices in Marquette and Washington, DC. We focus on empowering organizations and their people to overcome a range of major business challenges by providing them with the tools, support and sustainable programs they need to be successful.
NCG works with commercial businesses and the Federal Government to secure systems and data, building programmatic solutions to address challenges and seize opportunities. Technology, security, and risk management are core components of NCG’s consulting services. NCG’s service model focuses on the confluence of people, processes, data, and technology to deliver business value since its inception in 2006.
We balance technical, security, safety, risk, privacy, and compliance areas with consideration for organizational dynamics and corporate culture to craft effective solution paths. NCG provides professional services supported by tools and automation designed for each specific challenge and to help people collaborate and communicate. We leverage technology with expertise in management and industry requirements to support a range of efforts from Mergers & Acquisitions, Program Building, System Integration, and Process Improvements.
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