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Through its partnership with the City of New York, CUNY’s Building Performance Laboratory is hiring qualified energy management professionals to serve as on-site consultants and fill critical staffing capacity needs on behalf of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (“DCAS”) Division of Energy Management (“DEM”).

The Department of Citywide Administrative Services’ Information Technology Line of Service (IT) provides technological guidance within the agency by establishing and directing the strategic and tactical goals, policies, and procedures. IT collaborates and consults with all Lines of Services to exchange information, present new approaches, and discuss system changes and enhancements.

For this specific role, on behalf of DEM, CUNY BPL seeks to hire a software developer to join the Energy Support team. The candidate would be responsible for the development, design, delivery, and support of various applications to support the Division of Energy Management.

This is a hybrid position working on-site 3 days a week at 1 Centre St, New York, NY 10007. NYC residency may be required for continued employment. Immigration sponsorship is not available through this program.

Other Duties:

Under this assignment, the person’s responsibilities may include the following:

• Design, develop, and maintain modern web applications and APIs

• Implement microservices architecture and distributed systems

• Build CI/CD pipelines and automate development/deployment processes

• Collaborate with stakeholders for requirements gathering and technical solutions

• Ensure application performance, scalability, and reliability to meet SLAs

• Write comprehensive tests (unit, integration, E2E) and maintain code quality

• Implement security best practices and maintain compliance standards

• Provide production support and incident resolution

• Research and adopt emerging technologies to improve our tech stack

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree required.

The ideal candidate will bring the following skills and experience to this position:

Backend and Frontend Development

• 6+ years developing enterprise applications with .NET ecosystem

• Proficiency in ASP.NET Core Web API and RESTful services

• Experience with Entity Framework Core and LINQ

• 4+ years with modern JavaScript frameworks (React 18+, Vue 3, or Angular 17+)

• Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and responsive design (Bootstrap)

• Understanding of state management patterns and tools

Cloud & DevOps

• Hands-on experience with Azure or AWS services

• CI/CD implementation (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar)

Data, Integration, and Development Practices

• Experience with ETL/data integration tools (Azure Data Factory, etc.)

• Strong SQL Server skills and good knowledge of NoSQL databases

• Git version control and branching strategies

• Agile/Scrum methodologies

• Test-driven development (TDD) and automated testing

• Performance monitoring and optimization

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with message queuing (Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, Kafka)

• Observability tools (Application Insights, Datadog, New Relic) 

• Experience with SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect

• Knowledge of OWASP security principles

• Experience with caching strategies (Redis, Azure Cache)