Reporting directly to the Manager of Software Engineering, the Senior Software Engineer is responsible for the specification, design and creation of new software products and the maintenance and enhancement of our existing product line. The individual in this role will function as the lead J2EE infrastructure resource for a given product or module, providing guidance and architectural direction for these server-side components.
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for being a senior server-side technical resource for a defined set of Bullhorn products or product modules. When required, will participate in architecture and design reviews.
Act as a senior resource on the team, designing, specifying and developing software applications.
These will include both front end interfaces (Flex/Ajax/DHTML) and business logic components (J2EE)
Responsible for localization and dual byte character sets
Responsible for participating in maintaining the vision of the software product to ensure design decisions factor into the long term goals for the product while balancing the concerns for time to market, product quality, and end customer satisfaction.
Responsible for staying current on the latest software and networking processes, tools, and methods, and for making recommendations on how these advances can be applied to the current products and engineering practices
Write internal and external documentation and specifications as required
Key Position Requirements:
BS in Computer Science, Engineering or related field required
Minimum of 7 years of software development experience. including prior experience in a commercial software development environment
Strong project management skills and experience, and a track record of successfully delivering software products both on time and on budget
Experience developing high volume, mission critical applications in an Software-as-a-Service delivery model is highly desirable
Enterprise class product-experience, and a track record building large scale/high volume web applications using J2EE
Specific knowledge of and experience with the following open source projects (JBoss, Tomcat, Spring)
Have written applications that use JMS, EJB’s, MDB’s
Experience with web technologies, languages and frameworks (J2EE, Flex, JSP, CFML, ASP, .NET)
Hands-on development experience using one or more of the following languages (Java, C#, C++)
Experience with Subversion source control and Ant build scripting
Experience with localization and character sets (preferably UTF8)
Experience with email systems and protocols
Strong knowledge of JDBC and database programming
Strong object oriented design skills and a track record of delivering OO designs to market
Experience with appropriate application of design patterns
Ability to clearly articulate and defend design decisions to a wide audience
Experience with Agile
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