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With a broad-based and ever-growing portfolio of market-leading, vertical-market enterprise solutions covering more than 100 industry domains in predominantly mature markets, CSI's recipe creates the perfect environment for professionals to build fulfilling, long-term careers.\nWhat started as an R&D & Accounting back-office, has progressed into a full-service Global Centre serving all functions and departments, at the divisional as well as operating group/corporate level. Today Contour employees, located in Karachi, Lahore & Islamabad, are serving CSI divisions located in time zones spanning the globe, from Sydney to Vancouver. With the global growth of Constellation as the wind in our sails, we are only just getting started!\nRole summary\nWe're hiring a senior developer for our Desktop team. The team owns our current desktop products, which are Windows applications built on Visual Basic 6 (VB6) and COM, and which customers depend on every day, while CalcAir builds modern web versions of those products.\nThis is a lasting senior role for an engineer who knows VB6 deeply and uses AI tools to understand, document, and safely improve existing code. Our desktop products will stay in service for as long as customers depend on them, and you'll help keep them reliable, make the team's day-to-day work smoother, and help plan the path from VB6 to the web.\nWe're adopting an AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) approach, where AI takes on more of the analysis and building while engineers set direction, review the work, and make the decisions that matter. You'll work with our Desktop Team Lead and the Desktop team, with Product, and with Infrastructure & IT on builds and releases.\nWhat you'll accomplish in your first year\n First 90 days: Learn our VB6 codebase and the business rules behind it. Use Claude Code to map the highest-risk areas and document how they work. Get comfortable with our GitHub and Azure DevOps (ADO) workflows, and note where the team's process creates the most friction.\nBy 6 months: Add tests around critical workflows so changes are safer. Lead a set of fixes or improvements from planning through release, using AI-DLC checkpoints. Make the first improvements to how we build, test, and release. Share practical AI techniques for legacy code with the team. \nBy 12 months: Help define the path from our VB6 products to the web, including which business rules to carry forward and which to rebuild. Deliver the first meaningful piece of that work, and keep improving how the team works along the way.\n\nResponsibilities\nDesktop product support\nLead the technical work on VB6 desktop products, including defect fixes, enhancements, and releases.\nServe as the senior technical resource for hard problems and critical customer issues.\nKeep current products stable, supportable, and documented for as long as customers depend on them.\nProcess and workflow improvement\nFind and fix the slow, manual, or error-prone steps in how we build, test, and release desktop products.\nImprove how we use GitHub and Azure DevOps (ADO), so work is tracked, reviewed, and released consistently.\nUse Claude Code to automate repetitive work in analysis, testing, and documentation.\nTurn what works into shared team practices, so the whole team benefits.\nLegacy code understanding and modernization\nUse Claude Code to analyze VB6 code: map workflows, extract business rules, and identify risk before changes are made.\nWrite and maintain characterization tests that capture current behavior, so the web versions can be checked against it.\nWork with Product to decide which business rules and behaviors carry forward into the web products.\nAI-assisted development\nUse Claude Code as a regular part of your daily work for analysis, changes, tests, and documentation.\nApply AI-DLC practices and help the Desktop team use AI safely on legacy code.\nReview AI-generated changes carefully, especially in code with little test coverage.\nCollaboration and delivery\nWork in GitHub for source control and pull requests, and in Azure DevOps (ADO) for work items and tracking.\nPartner with Infrastructure & IT on builds, releases, and environments.\nMentor Desktop team members and document what you learn, so it isn't held by one person.\nRequired qualifications\n6+ years of professional software development, including substantial production work in VB6.\nDeep understanding of Windows desktop application architecture, data access, and debugging VB6 applications.\nStrong working knowledge of the COM model, ActiveX components, the Windows registry, and how legacy 32-bit applications behave on modern Windows systems.\nExperience reading and documenting large legacy codebases, and turning them into clear descriptions of how things work.\nDaily, hands-on use of Claude Code or a comparable agentic coding tool, with examples you can walk us through.\nA working understanding of AI-DLC and how it applies to legacy work.\nExperience with GitHub and Azure DevOps (ADO).\nA track record of improving team processes and workflows, such as build, test, and release steps, and making the changes stick.\nSenior-level judgment: you can weigh risk, explain tradeoffs to non-technical leaders, and say when something should wait.\nNice to have\nExperience migrating VB6 or other legacy Windows applications to .NET or the web.\nExperience with .NET/C#, React, or SQL Server, to help with the path to the web.\nExperience writing characterization or regression tests for legacy systems.\nExperience building AI-assisted workflows for a team, such as custom skills, agents, or MCP integrations.\nExperience with Azure DevOps (ADO) pipelines.\nExciting Benefits we offer:\nMarket-leading Salary\nMedical Coverage - Self & Dependents\nParents Medical Coverage\nProvident Fund\nEmployee Performance-based bonuses\nHome Internet Subsidy\nConveyance Allowance\nProfit Sharing Plan [Tenured Employees Only]\nLife Benefit\nChild Care Facility\nCompany Provided Lunch/Dinner\nProfessional Development Budget\nRecreational area for in-house games\nSporadic On-shore training opportunities\nFriendly work environment\nLeave Encashment\nDisclaimer: At Contour, we attribute our success to the unique contributions of our diverse staff. We’re committed to fostering a culture of respect that thrives on the varied perspectives and experiences of all individuals we recruit, employ, promote, and compensate. Since day one, we’ve adhered to a policy that champions a work environment honoring the worth and dignity of each person while being free from all forms of employment discrimination.\nIn our continuous effort to promote inclusivity, we extend our commitment to individuals with special needs by providing reasonable accommodations. We actively encourage qualified individuals with special needs to apply for the various openings within our company. Should you require assistance in completing the application process or have any inquiries regarding special facilities, please do not hesitate to contact our HR team. 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