Software Engineer - KPA Flex

Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. We succeed if our clients can send their employees home at night, having not experienced a workplace accident or injury. The combination of software, consulting, and training helps clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems so they can focus on what’s important – their core business.    Help us help keep people safe and businesses working efficiently. Named as one of Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work for five years in a row, KPA is made up of talented individuals working together for the greater good. We’re here to help our clients build safe, thriving organizations, and we’re looking for people with a common goal to help us do it. 

The KPA Flex Software platform helps clients develop a comprehensive EHS program, leveraging technology to instill a culture of safety and maintain a productive workplace. The platform combines features that are tailored to the needs of our clients business, including audits and inspections, incident management, flexible training, and reporting and insights. 

Position Description: The Software Engineer for the KPA Flex solution is a full stack web-application generalist who also works in the native iOS and Android applications. The candidate writes and maintains high-quality code that empowers customers with the resources they need to keep their team safe. The innovative technology and user customizable platform enables clients to collect, evaluate, understand and implement safety and training information in real-time.

The Software Engineer will be responsible for the following:

In the first 2 weeks you will:

• Have a running development environment confirmed by successfully building the code base for the existing product.
• Accept, estimate, develop and test a set of low-priority defects associated with one product.
• Have the solutions peer reviewed and passed prior to check-in

In the first 30 days you will:

• Contribute towards the planning, tasking, execution and delivery as defined by an agile development environment that includes reporting time against tasks, estimation of effort, code reviews and commitment to delivery.

In the first 90 days you will:

• Demonstrate development productivity and quality on par with the other team members through the daily input of status information. All developed code will be highly scalable, high-quality, object-oriented, and comply with KPA standards.

In the first 6 months you will:

• Collaborate with team members and leadership to identify and document the technical tasks performed and needed for continued success

By the end of the first year you will have:

• Demonstrated functional knowledge of the KPA Flex SaaS platform to the point of leading feature development for multiple components of the platform

Success Criteria:

• Writes and maintains high-quality code that gets the job done
• Collaborates with peers to meet customer needs
• Is always learning and continuously improving
• Is experienced in building web applications
• Is experienced with JavaScript and interested in using it on the server (NodeJS)
• Ideally worked with modern web frameworks such as Vue and WebPack
• Is familiar with secure coding practices (OWASP or SDLC) and has an eye for security concerns like injection attacks

Job Qualifications

• Mid-level (roughly 3-5 years) experience in full stack web application development with the following tech stack:
• NodeJS / JavaScript / TypeScript
• Git / GitHub
• MongoDB
• SQL / PostgreSQL
• Ideally worked with modern web technologies such as Vue, React, or WebPack
• Experience with native iOS (Objective-C, Swift) and Android (Java, Kotlin) development a plus

Compensation:

• Annual base salary between $100-120k
• Bonus potential of 10% annually
• This is a full-time, exempt position

Physical Requirements:

• Physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Working at a computer typing and view a screen - Constantly- Stationary sitting or standing - Constantly- Visual Recognition - Constantly- Hearing/Listening - Occasionally- Communicating verbally and/or in writing - Occasionally- Travel - Seldom