software developer

Software developers implement or program all kinds of software systems based on specifications and designs by using programming languages, tools, and platforms.

Scope note

Includes people performing software design.

Alternative Labels

application developer

application programmer

solutions developer

programmer

software specialist

application software developer

software developers

software engineer

applications engineer

software developer

soft developer

developer of software

Regulatory Aspect

To see if and how this occupation is regulated in EU Member States, EEA countries or Switzerland please consult the Regulated Professions Database of the Commission. Regulated Professions Database:

http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/services/free-movement-professionals/qualifications-recognition_en

Narrower occupations

- blockchain developer

Skills & Competences

Essential Skills and Competences

provide technical documentation utilise computer-aided software engineering tools identify customer requirements manage engineering project analyse software specifications perform scientific research use software libraries use technical drawing software use an application-specific interface develop automated migration methods develop software prototype debug software interpret technical requirements use software design patterns define technical requirements create flowchart diagram

Essential Knowledge

project management tools for software configuration management ICT debugging tools computer programming technical drawings integrated development environment software engineering processes engineering principles

Optional Skills and Competences

adapt to changes in technological development plans do cloud refactoring use query languages design user interface develop creative ideas migrate existing data use object-oriented programming utilise machine learning use functional programming collect customer feedback on applications use concurrent programming use logic programming integrate system components use automatic programming

Optional Knowledge

OpenEdge Advanced Business Language AJAX ASP.NET Eclipse (integrated development environment software) Scratch (computer programming) Apache Maven ICT security legislation PHP Perl WordPress Haskell Groovy SAS language Swift (computer programming) Oracle Application Development Framework Drupal defence standard procedures IBM WebSphere blockchain openness Prolog (computer programming) Lisp KDevelop Jenkins (tools for software configuration management) CoffeeScript Erlang ML (computer programming) Microsoft Visual C++ Internet of Things software frameworks World Wide Web Consortium standards Pascal (computer programming) ABAP Puppet (tools for software configuration management) smart contract Ansible JavaScript Apache Tomcat cyber attack counter-measures C++ R JavaScript Framework SAP R3 Smalltalk (computer programming) NoSQL VBScript SQL Xcode TypeScript STAF Ajax Framework Scala object-oriented modelling MATLAB blockchain platforms Assembly (computer programming) Common Lisp software anomalies APL Ruby (computer programming) Salt (tools for software configuration management) Java (computer programming) Visual Studio .NET COBOL Python (computer programming) Objective-C C#

Concept URI

Concept Uri

http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/f2b15a0e-e65a-438a-affb-29b9d50b77d1

Status

released

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