IT Software Engineer Senior (Municipal Court)

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• Make a Difference : Join a team driving meaningful change in one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation.
  
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• Career Growth : Advance your skills and expertise with professional development and leadership opportunities.
  
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Who are we? The Municipal Court is the judicial branch of local government, the City of Austin. The court decides the lowest level criminal offenses in the state of Texas, including traffic, city ordinance, juvenile, and disabled parking. Court services are handled both onsite and online, or by telephone, email, and mail.

Job Description:

Purpose:

IT Software Engineer Seniors are members of an agile-oriented cross-functional team who leverage software to solve real-world problems. This position actively develops and leads new software code and maintains existing code with a high degree of quality, leveraging strong software design principles, ingenuity and creativity, attention to detail, and analytical skills to devise unique and innovative software solutions.

Duties, Functions and Responsibilities:

Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.

• Researches, designs, develops, tests, implements, and manages service/product solutions.
  
• Develops service/product/solutions to support value creation, growth, and delivery of exceptional City/department customer and business results.
  
• Leads creation of a quality product or component of value.
  
• Leads and supports implementation, development, enhancement, and software source code and script modifications.
  
• Analyzes and designs technical solutions related to an application, platform, or service.
  
• Analyzes, creates, automates tests, and verifies and validates whether system and software solutions meet specified requirements.
  
• Monitors performance and identifies errors and remediation.
  
• Uses DevOps and Agile processes to deliver desired functionality quickly and effectively while iterating to continue development.
  
• Supports legacy systems, technology, processes.
  
• Determines technical feasibility criteria and next steps and actions for software and features.
  
• Ensures high-quality software deliverables by leveraging automation and tooling best practices.
  
• Participates in the design and development of the test automation framework and any in-house tools required.
  
• Debugs, troubleshoots, and isolates software problems.
  

Responsibilities - Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised:

May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, training, and guidance to others.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Knowledge of software design concepts, application servers, middleware applications and other software-related tools and concepts.
  
• Knowledge of programming languages like Javascript, C++, Python, Java etc.
  
• Knowledge of development platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Pega, Docker, Kubernetes).
  
• Knowledge of software development lifecycles and agile development methodologies.
  
• Knowledge of Operating Systems (Linux, UNIX, MacOS etc.)
  
• Knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD principles and tools.
  
• Knowledge of configuration management, test-driven development, and release management
  
• Knowledge of mobile applications, ecosystems and development.
  
• Skill in leading automation & orchestration, scripting & coding skills, ci/cd, containerization testing, infrastructure as code (IaC), release and deployment, and solution development.
  
• Skill in software security, cloud orchestration & computing.
  
• Ability to design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
  
• Ability to work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
  
• Ability to collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary teams to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
  
• Ability to investigate and analyze information, and to draw conclusions.
  
• Ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
  
• Ability to adapt quickly to short timelines, changes in prioritization, and ambiguity in an agile work environment.
  
• Ability to work with multiple layers of complexity.
  
• Ability to adhere to required compliance to all change management policies and procedures.
  
• Ability to adhere to required compliance to all information security policies and procedures.
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in a field related to the job, plus three (3) years of related experience.
  
• Experience may substitute for education up to four (4) years.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing, managing, and routine monitoring of interfaces (API, SFTP/FTPS).
  
• Expert level experience with SQL, JAVA, Groovy.
  

Notes to Candidate:

Employment Application:
The City of Austin employment application is an official document; incomplete applications will not be considered.

Please be sure to detail on the application all current and previous employment that you wish to be considered as part of your qualifications.

• Detailed, complete Employment Application is required to help better evaluate the applicant’s qualifications - minimum and preferred as noted on the job posting. Incomplete applications will be disqualified.
• You must use “N/A” for fields that are not applicable.
• Employment history dates must include month and year.
• Verification of employment history dates on resume should match online Employment Application.
• Starting salary will be based on overall relevant experience from your employment application, not your resume or cover letter.
• Please note that Austin Municipal Court may close the job posting at any time after 7 days from the date of the initial advertisement.

Additional Information:
Skills assessments will be used to determine selection for interview process after initial applicant review.

REQUIREMENT: Please note a resume attachment is required for consideration to this position, please ensure to attach a resume before submitting your application.

Department:

Municipal Court

Location:

6800 Burleson Road, Building 310, Suite 175, Austin TX 78744

Pay Range:

$75,930.00-$96,430.00 per year

Days and Hours:

• Generally, Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm. Close variations to the hours will be considered.
• Schedule may include days, evenings, nights, weekends and/or holidays. Austin Municipal Court is a 24 hour, 7 days per week business operation. Schedule/location may change based upon business needs.

Telework details:

After training is completed, this position is eligible for telework. The routine schedule would require on site work for routine team meetings tasks, as well anytime an unanticipated issue requiring in person presence is required.

Travel:

If you are selected for this position and meet the Driver Safety Standards in the City of Austin Driver Safety Program, you may drive when necessary to multiple locations as part of your regular job duties. Otherwise, you are responsible for getting to and from these locations.

CBI:
If selected as top candidate for this position you must pass a Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) fingerprint-based background check to be hired and maintain CJIS eligibility. Due to CJIS requirements related to system access, the following will result in being disqualified for this position: Felony Convictions, Felony Deferred Adjudication, Class A & B Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication, Class B Misdemeanor Convictions, an Open Arrest for Any Criminal Offense (Felony or Misdemeanor), and Family Violence Convictions.

Working with the City of Austin provides a number of health and welfare benefits such as low-cost medical, dental, vision, paid leave time, a highly competitive retirement plan, training opportunities and more. Please click HERE for more information.

This position is eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSF) Program. This program is a federal program that is intended to encourage individuals to work in public service by forgiving the balance of their federal student loans.

Critical Employee Designation:

This position has been designated as a Critical Employee position. Critical Employees are considered necessary and vital and support activities that impact City or department operations. This work can be done while at a designated work site or while working at an alternate work location. Critical employees who are able to work at an alternative work location are required to do so. Schedules may be modified and employees may be reassigned to another area during extraordinary situations or emergency conditions to provide essential services.

Important Note to Applicants:
Please be aware that the Job Posting Close Date reflects the final day to apply, but the posting will close at 11:59 PM the day before the date listed. All application steps, including attachments and submission, must be fully completed before that time.

EEO Statement for City of Austin:

The City of Austin will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, creed, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, age, religion, veteran status, disability, or sexual orientation. In addition, the City will not discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of an individual's AIDS, AIDS Related Complex, or HIV status; nor will the City discriminate against individuals who are perceived to be at risk of HIV infection, or who associate with individuals who are believed to be at risk.

City of Austin is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you require reasonable accommodation during the application process or have a question regarding an essential job function, please call (512) 974-3210 or Texas Relay by dialing 7-1-1.

Closing Date/Time: 2026-02-03

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