
Software Engineer, Senior
Thornton, COFull-time$100–150K/yrPosted 1w agoStill listed 5 days ago
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The Senior Software Engineer performs complex product development across design, systems analysis, implementation, and maintenance. The role designs, programs, tests, implements, troubleshoots, and maintains complex products, develops data warehousing systems, and assists with product architecture. It also documents code and changes, collaborates with departments and clients, supports operating systems and database management systems, and provides user training as needed.
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FULL SALARY RANGE: IT Level 12 (minimum: $99,978- mid-point: $124,972- maximum: $149,968) The maximum placement for new hires is based upon experience and typically does not exceed the mid-point of the range. FTE: 1.0 STANDARD HOURS PER WEEK: 40 MONTHS PER YEAR: 12 JOB CODE: 090530 POSITION TYPE: New/Replacement LOCATION: Thornton, CO
Adams 12 Five Star Schools is deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. We commit to eliminate the predictability of who is included in excellence and who is not. Adams 12 Five Star Schools puts students first and supports our district's mission to elevate student success for every student every day in every classroom. Candidates who can contribute to our goal are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths in this area.
SUMMARY: Perform complex product development in areas including design, systems analysis, implementation, and maintenance of several projects. Design, program, test, implement, troubleshoot and maintain multiple highly complex products. Create, develop and maintain data warehousing systems. Assist in product architecture. Write documentation to explain what code does to use as a reference in the production cycle, document changes, fixes and codes.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
JOB TASK DESCRIPTIONS:
- Design, program, test and implement highly complex programs and relational databases assuring product quality and effectiveness.
- Analyze, diagnose, troubleshoot and design solutions to problematic programming. Trouble shoot software and client issues.
- Performs programming and provides support for operating systems and database management systems.
- Collaborate with departments and clients in project design and development from start to finish. develop and coordinate production processing schedules.
- Evaluate and test new programs to ensure logic and syntax are correct and that program results are accurate. Assist lower level programmers with programming assignments.
- Conduct system analysis and development to keep systems current with changing technologies.
- Document program, code and special instructions on procedural, modular and database level.
- Develop and provide system and/or programming training for users as needed.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related major. Four (4) additional years of similar and relevant experience may be substituted for this requirement.
- Minimum of three (3) years of software engineering experience.
- Minimum of five (5) years experience in systems analysis, software development and programming methodologies,design and implementation.
LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS or CERTIFICATIONS:
- Criminal background check required for hire.
APPLICATION INFORMATION: All applicants (current district employees and external applicants) should list any and all work experience, including current district experience, when completing the employment application. Please include job titles and duties that you held while doing that job. Since the Human Resource department uses the application to screen for minimum qualifications required for each job, it is important to have a complete application so you will be considered for the position you are applying for.
SALARY INFORMATION: The salary listed is for full time positions (1.0 FTE). This salary will be adjusted, as needed, based upon the FTE. Administrative employees' salary will be commensurate on the employees' education and/or work experience. For additional information, please review our Administrative Compensation Program or review our Administrative Salary Schedule.
BENEFITS INFORMATION: Adams 12 Five Star Schools is committed to providing an environment that promotes a healthy employee population able to serve our students at the highest level. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as other programs for benefit eligible employees. The employee assistance program, voluntary life insurance through PERA, and 401(k), 403(b) & 457(b) plans are available to all employees regardless of hours worked and are available immediately (upon hire date). To learn more about our benefits, including paid time off, please see our Benefits Overview.
THIS POSTING IS NOT INCLUSIVE OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION. REV 09/26
How this job compares
Set against the 8,179 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$100–150K/yr
- Colorado median$135–214K/yr206 salary ranges
- US median$148–246K/yr6,157 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $125K, is 28% below the Colorado median midpoint ($175K) — in the lowest quarter of Software Engineering salary ranges in Colorado.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 257 open Software Engineering jobs in Colorado and 8,179 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Colorado
- Oracle16 open
- Deloitte12 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (6,438 postings).
- Education
- 2,206 of the 8,179 open Software Engineering jobs (27%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 2, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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