Visual Basic Application Consultant

Company Description

The Bridge leverages exceptional Costa Rican engineering talent.

Our team has been offering a wide range of software related services since early 2006. During this time we have pioneered hundreds of technologies and methods.

We work with the latest and top-notch technologies in a fun and open culture with exiting and challeging projects.

Job Description

We are seeking a fast-paced engineer who's willing to work with great clients in a fun environment. You will work close to our client's software in order to certificate their software quality. 

• Writes Visual Basic code in the .NET framework that performs automated functions for business operations
• Create and design access database projects for accessing old data and develop user reports
• Participates in peer reviews of designs and code of other team members
• Researches system issues, which includes analyzing information, reading source code, and understanding issues to identify potential solutions; explains the issue and findings to other team members
• Provides work estimates and status on development assignments to the Project Manager
• Advise business stakeholders on ways to make processes more efficient and employees more productive.
• Determine and document user requirements for business processes
• Developing technical solutions to business problems, with defining, analyzing and documenting requirements and workflows
• Performing requirements analysis
• Working closely with clients, technicians, and managerial staff

Qualifications

Qualified applicants will have expert skills in the following areas:

• Visual Basic/VB/VBScript
• MS SQL Server
• SQL Statements
• Third-party APIs
• Consultantcy 

Additional skills:

• Maintenance of Legacy Code
• Refactor/Port Code
• Data Analysis
• Query Optimization
• Performance Tuning
• Reports

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or 3+ years of related VB programming experience
• 3+ years of experience with developing applications in Visual Basic
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to work with minimal supervision
• Must have strong verbal and written communications skills

Additional Information

- We offer working from home, fun environment in the heart of San José, really challeging projects that will require leadership and think outside of the box, we are not on regular projects, these are exiting stuff.