Application Developer - Temporary/Extra Help

Under general direction, performs application development, enhancement, maintenance, and support activities for Court systems. Responsibilities focus on coding, troubleshooting, system updates, and implementing business requirements within established technical standards. Works with users to clarify requirements and ensures applications operate reliably and efficiently.

Note: This position status is Temporary Extra Help position through approximately March, 2027.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED Receives general direction from assigned supervisory and management personnel and technical and functional direction from senior personnel. This position does not exercise direct supervision over other staff.

Class Characteristics: The Application Developer is a journey-level classification responsible for providing key support to assigned software systems and for the development, design, programming, coding, implementation and testing of new or existing applications. It is distinguished from the Senior Applications Developer in that the latter classification typically works with the systems or modules of more complexity or larger scale and has lead and training level responsibilities. The Application Development Analyst serves as a key liaison and point of contact with internal staff, customers, consultants, and vendors., * Develops, modifies, and maintains applications to meet user and business needs; performs coding, scripting, and configuration changes.

• Works with users to gather and clarify functional requirements; translates business needs into technical tasks and development work.
• Performs debugging, troubleshooting, and problem resolution for assigned applications and interfaces; ensures timely resolution of issues.
• Designs and executes unit and system tests to validate functionality and data accuracy; supports interface testing during system changes.
• Implements application updates, enhancements, and maintenance activities; participates in rollout and deployment processes.
• Creates and maintains technical documentation, including procedures, application notes, requirements, and simple design diagrams.
• Supports data-related tasks, including data validation, report queries, and updates to data definitions where required.
• Provides support for Court Internet/Intranet applications, including updates to screens, menus, scripts, and content.
• Works collaboratively with other IT team members to ensure applications function effectively within the Court's technical environment.
• Performs other court-related duties as assigned., * Apply systems integration design concepts as they relate to applications design and development.
• Multi-task and able to move seamlessly between projects, Internet and intranet technologies.
• Apply relational database theory, design rules and development practices, including data modeling, data flow and entity relationship analysis, data structure analysis and data access methods.
• Plan, organize and complete projects efficiently and effectively to meet stakeholders requirements.
• Troubleshoot and diagnose problems; make the appropriate repairs to resolve them.
• Prepare clear, concise and accurate reports and other written materials.
• Communicate clearly and effectively orally and in writing to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Exercise sound independent judgment within general policy guidelines.
• Keep technical skills current to meet continuing development assignments.
• Work collaboratively as a team member or leader to ensure project accountability.
• Support the development and maintenance of business logic using Groovy scripts and Velocity templates under guidance from senior team members.
• Use tact and diplomacy when dealing with sensitive, complex and/or confidential issues and situations.
• Establish and maintain highly effective, customer-focused working relationships with court managers, court staff and others encountered in the course of work.

Do you have experience in Version control?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, Any combination of training and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the required qualifications would be:

Equivalent to a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in information technology, computer science, management information systems or a closely related field. Three (3) years of experience building, implementing, and maintaining new systems and conducting business process analysis.

Experience in translating functional and business requirements into design, development, installation and maintenance of computer applications in conformance with business and technical requirements is highly desirable.

Knowledge of:

• Principles and methods of systems analysis, including business process and entity relationship analysis tools and methods.
• Systems design principles and applications development methodologies and tools, including those applicable to client server, traditional procedural and object oriented programming and design.
• Project management tools and techniques, including preparation and management of detailed project schedules and metrics and change management and control.
• Software development and maintenance tools such as Visual Studio and modern API/data modeling tools.
• Programming languages used in Court applications (e.g., C#, XML, XSLT).
• Experience in the development of Service Oriented Applications which can asynchronous message data from one endpoint to another
• Operating system capabilities and constraints applicable to information systems and platform operating systems.
• Source Control Methodologies.
• "Knowledge of modern integration frameworks such as RESTful services, message queues (e.g., Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ), and event-driven patterns.
• Understanding of message-based integration concepts and queue-based communication patterns.
• Software development and maintenance tools and utilities.
• Standard PC software packages including word processing, spreadsheets, and databases.
• Database management systems and software as they affect application design., Possession of a valid California Class C driver's license and the ability to maintain compliance with the Court's vehicle insurance policy, or the ability to provide alternate transportation that meets job requirements, as needed.

Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Disability insurance, Please note, all benefits for Part-Time employment are pro-ratedRetirement Plan: Participation in the Sonoma County Employee's Retirement Association (SCERA), a 1937 Act Retirement Plan based on PEPRA. The 2026/27 mandatory contribution is 7.7% for employees and 30.28% for the Court. This is a defined benefit plan fully integrated with Social Security.

Vacation Leave: Regular, full-time employees in benefit unit 02 on paid status accrue vacation at a rate of 3.5 hours per pay period for the first two years (a little over 2 weeks and 1 day each year), with incremental increases to the accrual rate each year through year 5 and additional increases every 5 years thereafter, to year 20. Maximum accrual balance is 376 hours.

Sick Leave: 12 days per year with no limit on accumulation.

Holidays: 14 paid fixed holidays per year, plus 24 miscellaneous floating holiday hours, granted via compensatory time off.

Insurance: Family vision care, family Dental care as well as employee short and long term disability plans, are fully paid by the Court. Choice of three health plans: Health Net PPO, Health Net HMO, and a Kaiser Permanente HMO plan. The Court's contribution is currently 92% of the premium for the health plan selected.

Life Insurance $50,000 Term Life Insurance is provided by the Court; additional life insurance may be purchased by the employee.

Deferred Compensation: Employees may contribute a portion of their salary into a 457 Deferred Compensation account (up to the IRS annual maximum).

Dependent and Medical Care Assistance Programs: Employees may participate in these tax exempt programs which allow certain personal expenses to be paid from pre-tax salary.