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For more than 40 years, we have built water and wastewater treatment infrastructure, along with heavy civil and commercial/industrial projects, across the Upper Midwest and Mountain West. Our team of roughly 420 employees delivers more than 45 active projects a year, backed by an award-winning safety program.\nPosition Summary\nThe Application Developer builds, maintains, and improves the internal business applications our employees rely on every day. This is a hands-on development role for someone who enjoys both writing code and talking with the people who use it: you will sit down with employees and business leaders, understand what they need, and turn it into practical, reliable solutions.\nWorking alongside WRG’s technology leadership, you will keep existing applications running smoothly, enhance them as they move into broader use, and take on growing responsibility for deployment and production support over time.\nEssential Responsibilities\nDevelopment\nDevelop and enhance internal business applications, features, APIs, reports, and user interfaces.\nMeet with employees to understand business needs and translate them into practical technical solutions.\nImprove and scale existing applications as they move into broader organizational use.\nIntegrate applications with company systems, databases, authentication tools, and shared technology.\nWrite and optimize SQL queries, reports, and database views.\nUse modern development tools, including AI-assisted tools, while reviewing and validating the resulting code.\nMaintenance & Support\nMaintain and support applications currently in use, troubleshooting issues involving code, data, databases, network resources, and authentication.\nParticipate in release processes, including source control, versioning, testing, Docker image builds, deployment, and rollback.\nSupport integration with company systems, including Sage 300 CRE and Sage Paperless.\nHelp keep application dependencies, base images, and supporting infrastructure patched and current.\nAssist with consolidating and retiring legacy deployments as applications are replaced.\nStandards & Documentation\nFollow and help improve standards for application development, deployment, security, and support.\nApply sound security practices, including SSO, environment-based credentials, and least-privilege database access.\nMaintain technical documentation, deployment procedures, architecture notes, and troubleshooting guides.\nBuild applications that others can support, so no system depends on the knowledge of a single person.\nQualifications\nRequired\n3-6 years of experience developing and supporting business applications in a production environment.\nStrong proficiency in Python and experience building web-based applications.\nWorking knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.\nStrong SQL skills and experience with relational databases.\nExperience using Git for source control and version management.\nExperience with REST APIs, testing, and application troubleshooting.\nAbility to understand, maintain, and improve applications written by others.\nClear communicator who works well with both technical and nontechnical employees.\nStrong problem-solving and documentation skills.\nPreferred\nExperience deploying and supporting applications in Docker/Linux environments.\nExperience with Microsoft SQL Server, ODBC connectivity, or SSO.\nExperience with ERP/accounting systems, especially Sage 300 CRE or Sage Paperless.\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent experience will be considered.\nSuccess Measures\nEmployees have reliable, easy-to-use applications that support their daily work.\nRequests and issues are understood quickly, communicated clearly, and resolved with minimal disruption.\nExisting applications are stable, current, and well documented.\nCode and documentation are clear enough for others to support and build on.\nCompensation & Benefits\nThe pay range for this position is $85,000 - $125,000 annual base salary for Monticello, MN. 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