SOFTNICE UK LIMITED
Senior Application Developer (Expertise in OpenEdge ABL/4GL)
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Job Title: Senior Progress OpenEdge Developer
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Progress OpenEdge Developer with 6+ years of experience in designing, developing, enhancing, and maintaining enterprise applications. The role focuses on OpenEdge ABL/4GL development, AppServer, WebSpeed, and SOAP/REST API integrations. The candidate will work in Agile teams to deliver small to medium-sized changes using ADO and Jira, while providing application support when required.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, enhance, and maintain applications using Progress OpenEdge ABL/4GL.
- Develop and maintain reusable business logic, procedures, classes, temp-tables, queries, and application components.
- Build, maintain, and troubleshoot OpenEdge AppServer and WebSpeed applications.
- Develop and support SOAP and REST web services and API integrations.
- Analyze business requirements and translate them into efficient, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions.
- Implement small to medium-sized enhancements, bug fixes, and technical improvements within Agile sprints.
- Participate in solution design, effort estimation, code reviews, sprint planning, and technical discussions.
- Write unit tests, perform debugging, and ensure code quality and application stability.
- Investigate application defects and production issues, identify root causes, and implement permanent fixes.
- Use ADO and/or Jira for backlog management, sprint tracking, defect management, and release coordination.
- Maintain technical documentation, deployment instructions, and application support guides.
- Collaborate with business analysts, architects, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, and support teams.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior developers.
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Mandatory Skills
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in Progress OpenEdge application development.
- Strong expertise in OpenEdge ABL/4GL, including procedural and object-oriented programming.
- Experience with OpenEdge AppServer and WebSpeed development.
- Strong knowledge of application integration using SOAP, REST, XML, JSON, and related technologies.
- Experience with debugging, error handling, logging, performance analysis, and application optimization.
- Understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, code reviews, and testing practices.
- Experience using Azure DevOps (ADO) and/or Jira for Agile delivery and work management.
- Experience with source control tools such as Git, SVN, or similar.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, collaboration, and team-player skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including client-facing interaction.
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Secondary Skills
- Good understanding of the Insurance domain.
- Experience with OpenEdge application deployment, configuration, and environment management.
- Basic understanding of OpenEdge RDBMS connectivity and application data access; database development is not required.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and DevOps practices.
- Scripting experience with PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar tools.
- Familiarity with application monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
- Experience with OpenEdge upgrades, modernization, or migration projects.
- ServiceNow administration experience or certification.
- Familiarity with React.
- Familiarity with PHP.
Experience and Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional experience in Progress OpenEdge development.
- Experience working in Agile, cross-functional, and client-facing teams.
- Ability to take ownership of technical solutions from requirements through development, testing, deployment, and post-release support.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline is preferred.
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