Description

Job Title: Application Development Lead

Posting Start Date: 2/26/26

If you are currently an employee of Herc Rentals, please apply using this link: Herc Employee Career Portal

Founded in 1965, Herc Rentals is one of the leading equipment rental suppliers in North America with 2025 total revenues reaching approximately $4.4 billion. Herc Rentals' parent company, known as Herc Holdings Inc., listed on the New York Stock Exchange on July 1, 2016, under the symbol "HRI." Herc Rentals serves customers through approximately 602 locations and has about 9,600 employees in North America as of December 31, 2025.

Job Purpose

Herc Rentals is going through a ground-up digital transformation. We are a cloud-native company using cutting-edge technologies. We use cloud-based tools and applications in addition React, GraphQL, Dynamodb. It is not a requirement that you be knowledgeable in any specific language/technology.

Lead Application Developer plays a key role in working with AWS Cloud Native application development and handling high volumes of data from 100k+ equipment's in the Telematics backend with a focus on code optimization and maintaining it. We are interested in collaborative, service-oriented Engineers who thrive in an environment of autonomy and ownership.

The ideal candidate has strong technical skills along with the demonstrated ability to help lead projects of application developers in a customer-driven, fast-paced collaborative team environment.

What you will do...

• Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts to ensure understanding of requirements.
• Develop applications, administrations and product support.
• Work closely with onsite/offshore teams, maintain code quality and code reviews.
• Administer, support and develop various Herc-hosted proprietary applications
• Troubleshoot application issues with a resolution first approach to minimize business & customer impact
• Manages & Supports 3rd party devices, API integrations
• Develops cost-effective Digital IT solutions by modifying or writing new software

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Graduate Degree in Computer Science preferred
• 3 years experience in Telematics and IOT required
• 3 years of ecommerce expreince is required
• 1 year of AI expreince required
• Design, code, test, and analyze software programs and applications including research,documenting and modifying throughout the production lifecycle
• Excellent presentation and soft skills, able to present complex technical concepts to businesspartners and senior management
• Interacting with and querying databases and/or NoSQL datastores
• Experience in writing API's (REST, GraphQL)
• Familiarity with AWS managed services like SQS, AppSync, MKS etc
• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure
• Familiarity with Microservices development
• Carry out debugging, troubleshooting, modifications, and unit testing of custom solutions builton the organization/client's platform
• Familiarity with cloud streaming services like Kafka, Kinesis
• Provide prompt response to technical issues in a professional manner
• Experience leading Agile/Scrum development teams

Skills

• 5+ years of development experience including Java
• 3 years experience in Telematics and IOT required
• 3 years of ecommerce expreince is required
• 2+ years of experience in writing Lambda functions and micro services
• 2+ years of experience with Cloud-based development, including AWS
• 2 years of experience working within an Agile development environment
• 2 years of experience with modern CI/CD tools such as Git, Docker, Jenkins, etc
• 1 year of AI expreince required

Req #: 67500

Pay Range: Based on qualifications.

Please be advised that the actual salary offered for any position is subject to the company's sole discretion and may be influenced by various factors, including but not limited to the candidate's qualifications, experience, location, and overall fit for the role.

Herc Rentals values its employees and provides excellent compensation and benefits packages which are not limited to the following.

Keeping you healthy

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Life and disability insurance

Flex spending and health savings accounts

Virtual Health Visits

24 Hour Nurse Line

Healthy Pregnancy Program

Tobacco Cessation Program

Weight Loss Program

Building Your Financial Future

401(k) plan with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Life & Work Harmony

Paid Time Off (Holidays, Vacations, Sick Days)

Paid parental leave.

Military leave & support for those in the National Guard and Reserves

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Adoption Assistance Reimbursement Program

Tuition Reimbursement Program

Auto & Home Insurance Discounts

Protecting You & Your Family

Company Paid Life Insurance

Supplemental Life Insurance

Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance

Company Paid Disability Insurance

Supplemental Disability Insurance

Group Legal Plan

Critical Illness Insurance

Accident Insurance

Herc does not discriminate in employment based on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, political affiliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors. #Appcast