Senior Software Developer

About Cisive
Cisive is a trusted partner for comprehensive, high-risk compliance-driven background screening and workforce monitoring solutions, specializing in highly regulated industries—such as healthcare, financial services, and transportation. We catch what others miss, and we are dedicated to helping our clients effortlessly secure the right talent. As a global leader, Cisive empowers organizations to hire with confidence.

Through our PreCheck division, Cisive provides specialized background screening and credentialing solutions tailored for healthcare organizations, ensuring patient and workforce safety. Driver iQ, our transportation-focused division, delivers FMCSA-compliant screening and monitoring solutions that help carriers hire and retain the safest drivers on the road.

Unlike traditional background screening providers, Cisive takes a technology-first approach powered by advanced automation, human expertise, and compliance intelligence—all delivered through a scalable platform. Our solutions include continuous workforce monitoring, identity verification, criminal record screening, license monitoring, drug & health screening, and global background checks.

Job Summary
The Senior Software Developer is responsible for designing and delivering complex, scalable software systems, leading technical initiatives, and mentoring junior developers. This role plays a key part in driving high-impact projects and ensuring the delivery of robust, maintainable solutions.

In addition to core development duties, the role works closely with the business to identify opportunities for automation and web scraping to improve operational efficiency. The Senior Software Developer will collaborate with Cisive's Software Development team and client stakeholders to support, analyze, mine, and report on IT and business data—focusing on optimizing data handling for web scraping processes.

This individual will manage and consult on data flowing into and out of Cisive systems, ensuring data integrity, performance, and compliance with operational standards. The role is critical to achieving service excellence and automation across Cisive's diverse product offerings and will continuously strive to enhance process efficiency and data flow across platforms.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of scalable and maintainable web scraping solutions using the Scrapy framework, integrated with tools such as Kafka, Zookeeper, and Redis
• Develop and maintain web crawlers to automate data extraction from various sources, ensuring alignment with user and application requirements
• Research, design, and implement automation strategies across multiple platforms, tools, and technologies to optimize business processes
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues affecting the performance, reliability, and stability of scraping systems and automation tools
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for automation systems, providing guidance and support to internal teams
• Analyze and validate extracted data to ensure accuracy, integrity, and compliance with Cisive's data standards
• Define, implement, and enforce data requirements, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent and efficient operations
• Collaborate with stakeholders and end users to define technical requirements, business goals, and alternative solutions for data collection and reporting
• Create, manage, and document reports, processes, policies, and project plans, including risk assessments and goal tracking
• Conduct code reviews, enforce coding standards, and provide technical leadership and mentorship to development team members
• Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, recommending improvements in technologies, tools, and processes
• Drive the adoption of modern development tools, frameworks, and best practices
• Contribute to strategic planning related to automation initiatives and product development
• Ensure clear, thorough communication and documentation across teams to support knowledge sharing and training

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in HTML, XML, XPath, XSLT, and Regular Expressions for data extraction and transformation
• Hands-on experience with Visual Studio
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Some experience with C# .NET
• Solid experience with MS SQL Server, with strong skills in SQL querying and data analysis
• Experience with web scraping, particularly using the Scrapy framework integrated with Kafka, Zookeeper, and Redis
• Experience with .NET automation tools such as Selenium
• Understanding of CAPTCHA-solving services and working with proxy services
• Experience working in a Linux environment is a plus
• Highly self-motivated and detail-oriented, with a proactive, goal-driven mindset
• Strong team player with dependable work habits and well-developed interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrates willingness and flexibility to adapt schedule when necessary to meet client needs.