Senior Software Engineer, Bay Area, CA

Sr Software Engineer (.NET/Delphi/SQL Server) opening with a true market leader in the insurance arena based in San Francisco (direct entity of Berkshire Hathaway). The company is truly a first class organization that really values their employees and the work that they do. This is a very good opportunity to be a part of a great company with a talented team. A very solid salary/benefits package will be provided.
 
 
Please take a moment to review the details below and let me know how well you think this fits your background. 
 
 
Senior Software Engineer
 
 
Position Overview:
 
This is a KEY position on the Application Development and Support team within the IT department of a growing Workers' Compensation insurance company (direct entity of Berkshire Hathaway).   In this position you will work with Business Analysts, DBAs, and QA within IT to maintain existing client-server and web applications, and will be integral in the development of our next-generation web applications. 
 
Job Requirements:
 
  • Design and develop secure, fast, scalable, web applications for a growing workers' compensation insurance company.
  • Actively participate in all phases of development from design through coding, unit testing, integration testing, and technical documentation
  • Accurately assess technical feasibility and development effort given business specifications; identify and propose alternatives to meet given resource/time constraints
  • Analyze existing software and application data to diagnose and pose solutions to reported problems. 
  • Understand and be able to translate written requirements into technical design specifications.
  • Support and enhance existing client-server applications in .NET, Delphi 6 and SQL
 
Qualifications:
  • 5+ years experience in application development in a 3-tier environment
  • Language requirements: Delphi 6, Advanced Transact SQL (T-SQL, Stored Procedures, UDFs) on Microsoft SQL Server Platform
  • Solid experience developing in Visual Studio.Net, C# or C++, and using SQL Server 2005, SQL Client Tools
  • Experience with SQL Reporting Services or Crystal Reports preferred; experience with other report/query tools such as Hummingbird, Business Objects, etc. is a plus
  • Relational database design experience is a plus
  • Familiarity with Visual SourceSafe (VSS) or equivalent preferred.
  • Experience in financial services and/or experience in workers’ compensation insurance is a plus
  • Experience with prototyping and rapid application development is strongly preferred
  • Self starter with a ‘can do’ attitude and motivation to learn new skills
  • Flexible, with the ability to multitask and adapt to changing business needs and priorities
  • Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal
 
If this sounds like something that you would like to take a closer look at, please send me an updated word copy of your resume that details your experience with the skills mentioned above and I will give you a call to further discuss.
 
I look forward to speaking with you soon.
 
Have a great day!
 
Tom
 
Thomas A. Hjorth
Paradigm Personnel Solutions
office: 866-926-2656
cell: 248-787-4968
e-fax: 248-479-0338