Software Developer

As a Senior Software Developer at Harris ERP, you write and review code every week, make sound architectural calls, and help lead a small team, including local and overseas developers, as we continue investing in and evolving our offerings. This role reports directly to the VP of Research & Development and works closely with product, QA, TechOps and other teams across the Harris ERP portfolio. RESPONSIBILITIES Hands-On Engineering: Develop and execute strategies to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the Customer Support department, aligned with company objectives and customer needs. Collaborate with the VP of Operations to define operational goals, develop KPIs, and create roadmaps to achieve targets. Technical Leadership: Design, build, and ship production code using modern Java frameworks and enterprise-grade engineering practices. You’ll be expected to stay in the codebase, not just review it. Own non-trivial pieces of the modernization effort end to end: from technical design through code review, testing, and production rollout. Make pragmatic architectural decisions that balance modernization goals against delivery timelines and the realities of a live, revenue-generating product. Team Leadership & Collaboration: Provide day-to-day direction, coaching, and technical mentorship to a small team of local and overseas developers, setting priorities, unblocking work, and holding a consistent quality bar across time zones. Partner with the VP of R&D on staffing needs, performance feedback, and career growth conversations for your teammates; formal HR actions (hiring, compensation, formal reviews) are owned by the VP, with your direct input. Build working rhythms, async updates, documentation habits, and review cadences that make distributed collaboration with overseas developers effective. AI-Enabled Delivery: Use, and help your team use, AI coding assistants and agentic tools as a standing part of your own workflow for scaffolding, refactoring, test generation, and code review. Identify where MCP-based tooling and AI agents can replace brittle flat-file integrations or manual operational work. Provide timely operational reporting to support ongoing validation of current and newly implemented processes. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE After 6 Months: You've shipped meaningful, production-quality contributions to the codebase and understand the CitySuite platform well enough to make independent design calls. You've built a working relationship with the local and overseas developers on your team, with clear expectations and a review process everyone understands. You've identified at least one area of the platform ready for modernization and proposed — or implemented — its replacement. After 12 Months: You own a meaningful slice of the platform in production — architecture, code quality, and operational health included. The patterns and standards you've set are visible in the team's code, and newer or outsourced developers are ramping up faster because of documentation and mentorship you've put in place. AI-assisted workflows are a normal part of how your team ships code, and you can point to concrete time saved or quality improved as a result. QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS - REQUIRED A track record of designing and shipping production-grade backend services in Java or a comparable modern, statically-typed language. We care about what you've built, not a specific year count. Experience owning REST API design and integration work in a real production system. Experience providing technical direction or mentorship to other developers, formally or informally, including reviewing others' code and helping them grow. Comfort working directly with distributed or outsourced development teams across time zones, with strong async, written communication. Active, hands-on use of AI coding tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) as part of your regular development workflow. Solid grounding in relational database design and SQL. QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS - PREFERRED Experience building software within an AI-Driven Development Life Cycle (AI-DLC), or contributing to a team that has adopted one. Direct experience with Quarkus, Jakarta EE, Hibernate, MapStruct, and/or Lombok. Experience modernizing or migrating a legacy Java monolith (Java EE, GlassFish, or similar) to a modern framework. Experience collaborating with a React front-end team or contributing to a React codebase. Background in ERP, GovTech, or other regulated/public-sector software. Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or building AI-integrated tooling and agents. SQL Server experience specifically. Experience with Data-tier Application Package (DACPAC). Familiarity with Container Engines such as Podman, Docker or similar technologies. EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience; we're flexible here if your project history speaks for itself. Demonstrated experience as a senior-level developer, including some exposure to guiding or mentoring other engineers. Ability to work core hours that overlap with both a US-based team and overseas developers. WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT Prior experience leading or mentoring outsourced/offshore developers specifically, not just distributed US teams. A past legacy-to-modern migration you can talk through in detail (what broke, what you'd do differently, how you kept the lights on during the transition). Contributions to internal tooling, libraries, or documentation that measurably improved a team's delivery speed. Curiosity about applying AI agents to problems beyond code generation, support tooling, data migration, testing, or operations. Salary range: $75,000 - $85,000 USD per year. At Harris, we believe great people build great software. We offer an environment where employees are empowered to make a real impact, grow their skills, and shape their careers. Our teams enjoy a supportive, award‑winning culture, a casual and collaborative workplace, and opportunities to learn from a diverse group of businesses and industries. We are financially strong and proudly part of Constellation Software Inc. (CSI), the largest software company in Canada, providing long‑term stability alongside entrepreneurial autonomy. In addition to a competitive compensation and benefits package, we offer meaningful perks, flexibility, and—most importantly—a culture that values people, curiosity, and having fun while doing great work. Follow us on LinkedIn to learn more about our culture, values, and career opportunities. Harris is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability may contact us by email at HarrisTalentAcquisition@harriscomputer.com. Accommodation requests may be made at any time. This email address is dedicated solely to accommodation requests and cannot be used to inquire about application status. Know Your Rights Poster EO 13496: Notification of Employee Rights under Federal Labor Laws Our commitment to fair and equitable hiring. As part of our recruitment process, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools during the initial screening phase to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely align with the requirements of the role. This technology supports efficiency and consistency in the early stages, but it never replaces human judgement. All subsequent evaluations and final hiring decisions are made by our recruitment professionals. AI does not make final hiring decisions.