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About the Role
Harris School Solutions is looking for an intermediate Software Developer to support and modernize a K-12 financial management platform. The role involves maintaining legacy VB6 and SQL Server systems, contributing to a modern.
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Responsibilities
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and improve the NextGen Classic application, including VB6 components, SQL Server databases, Excel macros, and custom scripts
- Contribute to NextGen 2.0, including bug fixes, enhancements, APIs, modernization work, and customer driven features
- Use AI assisted and agentic development tools to accelerate code analysis, development, debugging, testing, documentation, and knowledge capture
- Learn and document complex business logic, system dependencies, customer specific behavior, and K 12 school finance domain concepts
- Help migrate legacy functionality into modern .NET based services, APIs, and web application components
- Write and maintain SQL Server queries, stored procedures, scripts, and data troubleshooting tools
- Support deployments, release activities, hotfixes, QA collaboration, support team handoff, and production troubleshooting
- Work with Product Management, Professional Services, Support, QA, and other R&D team members
- Contribute to internal documentation, AI ready knowledge bases, and knowledge transfer efforts
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 3 7 years of professional software development experience
- Strong software development fundamentals with experience in C#, .NET, Java, TypeScript, or another enterprise stack
- Ability to read, debug, modify, and validate code in a complex existing application
- Experience with relational databases, preferably SQL Server
- Experience with Git based development workflows using Azure DevOps Repos, GitHub, or similar
- Exposure to web application development, APIs, and modern application architecture
- Practical experience using AI coding assistants or AI powered development tools
- Ability to validate AI generated code, analysis, or documentation
- Willingness to work with legacy codebases
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Job Overview
- We are looking for an intermediate Software Developer to join the NextGen R&D team at Harris School Solutions.
- This role will help support and modernize a critical K 12 financial management platform used by school districts to manage accounting, payroll, HR, purchasing, fixed assets, and other core business operations.
- This is not a greenfield development role; the successful candidate will work with a mature, mission critical product that includes both legacy and modern technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and improve the NextGen Classic application, including VB6 components, SQL Server databases, Excel macros, custom scripts, and related legacy technologies.
- Contribute to NextGen 2.0, including bug fixes, enhancements, APIs, modernization work, and customer driven features.
- Use AI assisted and agentic development tools to accelerate code analysis, development, debugging, testing, documentation, and knowledge capture.
- Learn and document complex business logic, system dependencies, customer specific behavior, and K 12 school finance domain concepts.
- Help migrate legacy functionality into modern .NET based services, APIs, and web application components.
- Write and maintain SQL Server queries, stored procedures, scripts, and data troubleshooting tools.
- Support deployments, release activities, hotfixes, QA collaboration, support team handoff, and production troubleshooting.
- Work with Product Management, Professional Services, Support, QA, and other R&D team members to investigate issues and deliver practical technical solutions.
- Contribute to internal documentation, AI ready knowledge bases, and knowledge transfer efforts.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 3–7 years of professional software development experience, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Strong software development fundamentals, with experience in C#, .NET, Java, TypeScript, or another enterprise application development stack.
- Ability to read, debug, modify, and validate code in a complex existing application.
- Experience with relational databases, preferably SQL Server, including writing queries, understanding stored procedures, and troubleshooting data issues.
- Experience with Git based development workflows using Azure DevOps Repos, GitHub, or similar tools.
- Exposure to web application development, APIs, and modern application architecture.
- Practical experience using AI coding assistants or AI powered development tools as part of regular development work.
- Ability to validate AI generated code, analysis, or documentation using sound engineering judgment.
- Willingness and ability to work with legacy codebases, including unfamiliar, complex, or poorly documented systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with C#/.NET, Blazor, WiseJ, or similar Microsoft development technologies.
- Experience with Visual Basic 6, VBA, classic ASP, or other legacy Microsoft technologies.
- Experience using AI tools or agents to analyze unfamiliar codebases, generate tests, document systems, refactor code, or troubleshoot defects.
- Experience modernizing legacy systems into modern web, API, or service based architectures.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Microsoft Azure, IIS, Windows Server, or multi tenant application environments.
- Interest in accounting, finance, payroll, HR, K 12 education technology, or public sector ERP systems.
Salary
- Salary: $95,000 $110,000 per year.
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