Title: Software Engineer Location: Toronto (Yonge & St Claire) Duration: Permanent Salary: 65k/yr to 120k/yr + extensive benefits and incentives
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Our team members continually exceed expectations; demonstrate a great deal of passion, initiative, creativity, and problem solving skills, while working in a fun, open and honest environment. Our developers will take ownership of major areas of our platform, designing and coding them to meet the growing needs of our business while providing a quality user experience for our users. A flexible and innovative mindset, balanced by solid experience in building scalable and quality web applications is paramount. It’s also important that you are detail oriented with a tendency to over-communicate. We are an Agile shop that uses Scrum to manage our iterations. We are Macs
Job Overview
Define, design, and implement complex, multi-tier distributed software applications.
Segment and design system layers to support component and layered application development, including user interface, business functionality, and database access.
Work with your development lead, other developers, product managers, QA, and operation teams to develop solutions that meet the business’ product requirements and deliver good performance, scalability, and reliability.
Estimate your development efforts, plan implementations, and rollout system changes.
Meet realistic implementation schedules and adhere to development goals and principles.
Share release management duties during feature rollouts and share on-call responsibilities.
Develop industry and product technical expertise.
Required Qualifications & Skills
BS/BA in CS or related field.
6+ years experience in requirements analysis, design, coding and unit testing of scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant applications for the internet.
Significant experience with OOD, transactional services, concurrent programming, asynchronous and event driven systems along with web application development.
Strong core Java
Significant experience with Spring Framework in projects that need to scale.
A passion for elegant architecture, data modeling, problem solving and dealing with scaling issues.
Extensive experience with Hibernate or JPA and MySQL.
Experience with continuous integration and automated testing of service layers.
Thirst for exploring leading edge technologies.
Prioritize tasks and deliver according to estimates.
Be able to have fun!
Prefer experience with Apache, Tomcat, ActiveMQ, SOLR, MySQL, Linux/Unix, Spring core & MVC, Hibernate or JPA, REST, AJAX, XML, JSON, JQuery and some Java EE.
