About CityBase:

At its best, local government is a unifying force with the power to dramatically improve lives. Govtech-company CityBase is helping smart people build intelligent government, working with cities, counties, utilities, and states to create a place as dynamic as the people who live in it, work in it, and contribute to it. Accessible and responsive, adaptive and efficient, our cloud-based platform is digitizing the city-hall experience and impacting constituents nationwide.

Interested in joining our team of 60-plus innovators at our Chicago headquarters? Check out our current job listings.

What we’re looking for:

We have an opportunity for a talented Software Integration Engineer to join our team and help us build the next generation CityBase platform. As part of an agile, highly capable development team, you will work with our product team to define and implement the future of GovTech.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely and collaboratively with a small, multi-disciplined team
• Collaborate with 3rd party vendors to Integrate new third-party system features with the CityBase platform
• Develop high quality software using BDD,TDD methodologies
• Participate in the planning and development of projects
• Effectively communicate with teammates in other departments
• Raise the bar in terms of code quality, helping our teams ship software more often
• Work within our culture of outside the box thinking, exploration and problem solving
• Help make CityBase an emerging leader in GovTech

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of software development experience in an Agile environment, utilizing lean/Scrum/XP Programming software development principles.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States
• Strong communicator and passionate about technology
• Experience launching production code with Ruby, Rails, Linux, and PostgreSQL
• Experience with enterprise level, high-availability application development.
• Experience using Test Driven Development (TDD).
• Experience in developing clean, well architected code.
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux environments.
• Strong database skills preferably experience using PostgreSQL.
• Data (SQL or similar query language) and data constructs (XML, JSON).
• Experience developing/consuming Web Services (REST, SOAP, JSON), ETL jobs and API's (Service-oriented architectures).
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies such as functional, SOA and performance testing.
• Have proven project management skills, specifically the ability to estimate scope, break up problems into deliverable chunks, and pivot when requirements change.
• Nice to have - Experience with functional programming languages such as Elm, Elixir, or Erlang (Scala, Clojure, F#, etc.)