Job Abstract

Job ID

2024-11807

Category

Information Technology

Location : Location

US-TX-Houston

When you join Hines, you will embark on a career journey fueled by vision and guided by leaders who set the standards of our industry. Our legacy is rooted in innovation and excellence, earning us a spot on Fast Company’s esteemed annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2024. Discover endless opportunities to grow and make your mark at Hines.

As a Senior Software Developer, you will design, create and support applications that will enable Hines to become the best real estate investor, partner and manager. This senior role focuses on implementing and driving development of the team’s work. Handling team questions to bring clarity to implementation details is key for this role in the team. With a future focus, this role should review team work for maintainability and ease of use. Senior Software Developers have the responsibility for championing complex feature development. The senior software developer role will contribute to the knowledge bank for the application ecosystem. Provide hands on support for the development team during ongoing development efforts. During planning, this role sets task weighing to help with timing estimations during sprint scoping.

We interact with and serve all levels of employees worldwide meaning this will be a highly visible and collaborative role across the enterprise requiring very strong working relationships with other teams across Hines, Directors, and other leaders.

This position is a member of the Application Development team within the IT department at Hines.

• Application development for the asset lifecycle, investment performance and account management processes
• Lead team development efforts within a sprint
• Assist with production and development system monitoring
• Requirements gathering with the product owners through mindmapping and other specification techniques
• Maintain and troubleshoot existing software applications in our growing application ecosystem
• Organize and run code deployments during change windows
• Keep up with an ever evolving application environment to help future proof application design
• Communicate with a wide variety of clients, peers, and upper management to work directly with the business
• Help maintain documentation code base during new feature development as well as changes to existing workflows
• Guide and assist team members through development design and challenges

Minimum Requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or other related work experience from an accredited institution is strongly preferred
• Four or more years of experience with software development in a team environment
• Bonus to have a working knowledge of the real estate industry
• Full-stack web development experience - Django preferred
• Strong SQL experience with PostgreSQL and SQLServer
• Responsive HTML / CSS design
• Python 3
• JavaScript
• Reporting Tools
• Familiarity with Agile Development
• Linux experience and comfort
• Dev Ops/Live Ops experience
• Using nginx
• UI / UX design
• Apache 2
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Pandas, numpy, sci-kit or other python based math libraries
• Integration with cloud-based systems
• git

At Hines, we strive for excellence as a leading global real estate investment manager, driven by our by our belief that real estate is fundamentally about people. Our diverse portfolio spans $93.2 billion¹ of assets across such property types as living, office, retail, mixed-use, logistics and life science projects – all designed to enhance value, connection and inspiration. Our strategic approach integrates local expertise with global knowledge, taking calculated risks aligned with our convictions to exceed expectations and tailor solutions to our clients' needs.

While our projects are renowned for enhancing cities and pioneering sustainable practices, we recognize that the true driving force behind Hines' success is our 5,000 dedicated employees in 30 countries who draw on our 65-year history to build the world forward. This is why we prioritize investing in our people, offering comprehensive training, competitive compensation, robust benefits and generous vacation packages. By centering our focus on the growth and wellbeing of our team, we cultivate an inclusive environment where everyone, including our clients, can thrive.

Hines is proud to be named to Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2024. ¹Includes both the global Hines organization and RIA AUM as of December 31, 2023.

We are an equal opportunity employer and support workforce diversity.

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