Senior Applications Development Engineer

Overview

Crowell & Moring LLP is an international law firm with offices in the United States, Europe, MENA, and Asia that represents clients in litigation and arbitration, regulatory and policy, and transactional and corporate matters. The firm is internationally recognized for its representation of Fortune 500 companies in high‑stakes litigation and government‑facing matters, as well as its ongoing commitment to pro bono service and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The Senior Applications Development Engineer is the key player in the Applications Development Team, leading large‑scale custom application development projects. The Senior Engineer provides full‑cycle application design and development, from planning to delivery, documentation, troubleshooting, and end‑user training. The Senior Engineer provides technical mentorship to the development team on solutions, architecture, research, best practices, and implementation of new technologies. The Senior Engineer takes leadership of their projects, is fully aware of all custom‑developed applications currently employed by the company, and is capable of troubleshooting all application‑related issues.

• Leads large‑scale custom application development projects through the implementation life‑cycle, utilizing project management processes, techniques, and tools, including but not limited to the development and maintenance of project plans, gathering of system requirements, leading team meetings, documenting and resolving issues, and managing risks.
• Researches, designs and writes new software programs of various levels of complexity; improves existing applications by analyzing and identifying areas for modification.
• Explores emerging technologies and best practices to ensure our application stack is cutting‑edge and forward‑looking, including researching and designing programming patterns, frameworks, and custom libraries.
• Provides technical mentorship to the development team on solutions, architecture, research, best practices, and implementation of new technologies.
• Develops code review standards to ensure the highest quality code is approved before being deployed to production environments.
• Recommends and performs actions to correct problems based on knowledge of the system.
• Writes detailed system documentation for all implemented applications.
• Provides end‑user training for new application users.
• Evaluates and prioritizes daily and weekly projects.
• Makes recommendations to management on ways to increase quality and efficiency of services and applications.

Education:

The position requires a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field. Equivalent training and experience may substitute for education.

• The position requires a minimum of seven (7) years of increasing responsibilities and directly related experience during which knowledge, skills and abilities applicable to the position were demonstrated.
• Experience providing technical mentorship to developers on solutions, architecture, research, best practices, and implementation of new technologies.
• Advanced knowledge of client‑side web development utilizing Angular, NgRx, and related frameworks.
• Advanced knowledge of Node Js and related frameworks.
  
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  SQL and SQL databases.
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub or related version control platforms.

• Ability to lead the development of new initiatives and/or completion of large‑scale application implementations utilizing project management processes, techniques, and tools.
• Experience mentoring/training developers on complex technical issues.
• Ability to analyze and interpret information from a variety of sources, apply critical and creative thinking to draw conclusions or develop solutions to complex problems.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and with others in a cooperative, enthusiastic and friendly manner to accomplish position functions and participate in team efforts.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work in a dynamic and complex environment to meet deadlines.
• Must be detail oriented and logical, demonstrates significant initiative and self‑motivation.
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