Staff Business Apps Developer

Areté’s IT Business Systems team builds the company’s internal applications, automations, and integrations with AI coding agents as a core part of its delivery model — and we are hiring the developer who will do the building. Working from requirements framed by our IT Business Systems team, you will deliver working, supportable solutions: custom applications, workflow and process automations, system integrations, and data pipelines across our ERP, engineering, and business platforms.

This is a hands-on, execution-focused role. We expect fluency in agent-assisted development paired with sound engineering judgment — readable architecture, secure handling of company data, source control discipline, and solutions that survive after their builder moves on to the next project. You will work directly with end users, process owners, and business leaders: participating in discovery, demonstrating working software, presenting proposed solutions, and training the people who use what you build. Comfort in front of a non-technical audience matters as much as the ability to build.

The candidate will work from one of our facilities in Niwot, CO, Tucson, AZ, Northridge, CA, or Falls Church, VA. Some remote work is available, but candidates must live within reasonable commuting range of one of these facilities and be able to work onsite regularly. The candidate will collaborate closely with the IT Business Systems team and Enterprise IT staff, travel occasionally, and provide some afterhours support. This is an exempt non-supervisory full-time position.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy custom internal applications and business process automation solutions from requirements through production release.
• Use AI coding agents as a primary development tool — working from written specifications rather than ad-hoc prompting — while owning the correctness, security, maintainability, and documentation of everything produced.
• Build and maintain integrations between disparate business platforms — ERP, PLM, HR, engineering, and SaaS systems — using APIs, connectors, and scheduled data flows.
• Take on occasional smaller builds such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that connect Areté’s internal systems and tools to AI agents and assistants, including the authentication, access scoping, and logging those connections require.
• Assess technical feasibility, size effort, and validate the recommended approach before work begins; own the detailed technical design — data model, integration architecture, and component structure — once an approach is selected.
• Deploy and maintain solutions in Microsoft Azure with Enterprise IT, using CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code so environments are reproducible and releases repeatable.
• Apply source control, code review, environment separation, and release practices so solutions are versioned, testable, and recoverable.
• Participate in process discovery sessions alongside the Business Solutions Analyst — interview users and observe real workflows to validate that a proposed solution will work in practice.
• Demonstrate working software, present proposed technical solutions to business audiences, and train and support end users on the applications you build.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation: architecture diagrams, data flow and interface documentation, runbooks, and end-user support material.
• Provide post-deployment support, enhancement, and troubleshooting for applications in service, ensuring solutions meet Areté’s security, data handling, and compliance requirements.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Experiences And Background We Look For

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or an additional 2 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of 3 years building and supporting business applications, integrations, or process automation solutions in a professional environment.
• Demonstrated proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript) and the ability to read and reason about code you did not write.
• Hands-on experience developing with AI coding agents — Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar — working from a written spec, plan, and acceptance criteria, and reviewing and validating agent-generated code before it ships. We don’t expect you to have used every tool we use; we ex…