We are seeking a Senior Progress OpenEdge Developer to maintain and evolve a legacy application critical to our business operations. This role is an opportunity to work independently within your expertise while collaborating with other developers to ensure stable, high-quality delivery.
The position emphasizes strong Progress OpenEdge and SQL skills, disciplined unit testing, and a solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle (SDLC). You will contribute to releases, support, and ongoing improvement of established patterns and practices.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, debug, and enhance a legacy Progress OpenEdge application
• Develop and execute unit tests to ensure code quality and regressions are prevented
• Design and implement solutions following established SDLC practices and team patterns, from requirements and ticket analysis through development, testing, documentation, infrastructure coordination, deployment, and release support.
• Conduct integration testing and assist with software releases and validation
• Participate in code and design reviews and provide clear technical documentation
• Support incident resolution, production support, and blameless post-incident reviews
• Collaborate with peers to develop reusable code modules and patterns
• Mentor and assist junior team members in understanding and completing assignments
• Use AI-assisted development tools and agents to write code, debug, improve productivity, and understand existing codebases.
• Work effectively with shared repository tooling such as Git, GitHub, pull requests, branching strategies, code reviews, and repository checks.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of experience in a professional software engineering or similar role 
• Strong proficiency developing applications using Progress OpenEdge
• Strong knowledge working with SQL databases and SQL database management systems
• Experience conducting unit tests using unit testing methodologies and best practices
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements, tickets, documentation, development, testing, infrastructure coordination, deployment, release, and production support.
• Hands-on experience resolving production issues, support requests, service tickets, or similar operational responsibilities.
• Experience using AI tooling for software development, including code generation, debugging, code review support, and using AI agents or assistants to understand existing codebases.
• Experience with shared repository tooling and collaborative development workflows, including Git, GitHub or similar platforms, pull requests, code reviews, branch management, and repository checks.
• Experience with the programming languages, frameworks, or platforms used by the team such as C# , JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Angular, or AWS
• Experience conducting integration tests and assisting with software releases and ongoing support
• Familiarity with Agile practices, including user stories, backlog refinement, and sprint planning
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline (preferred)

Nice to Have

• Experience developing software modules or patterns for reuse
• Experience developing for a cloud environment or cloud provider certification (AWS)
• Experience supporting CI/CD
• Agile certification
• Experience providing thought leadership and mentoring others