Senior Software Engineer New York, NY

 

Senior Software Engineer

 

 

Job ID: Job-2721

location:       New York, NY

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   $90K - $110K

 

Description:   

Build & customize functionality of our desktop and mobile sites in Java delivered by our Adobe CQ Content Management System. This role will be a valuable member of an agile product development team contributing ideas & innovation throughout product lifecycle. This team also operates with a DevOps mindset where team members work with one another and share responsibilities regarding our cloud infrastructure, scalability, and automation.

 

Responsibilities

- Technical design and development of software enhancements and integrations for websites, working collaboratively in an agile process with product, design, and project management team members

 

- Collaborate with Community, Search, and Web Content Management (WCM) platform teams to ensure integrations and dependencies are thoroughly planned and communicated

 

- As part of task and sprint planning, provide input towards feasibility, technical solution design, priority, estimation, high level work breakdown, documentation, risks, and dependencies

 

- Provide demos of own deliverables during sprint reviews. Also provide technical input and feedback regarding demos of other team members

 

- Contribute to knowledge sharing by conducting brownbag sessions, contributing to internal team blog, and drafting/updating internal wiki documentation

 

- Contributes technical feedback during design/UX walkthroughs, technical approach sessions, code reviews, project kickoffs, and system architecture reviews

 

- Design, execute, and evaluate tests of system performance, scalability, and reliability

 

- Participation in on call support rotation

 

- Collaborates with team to provide root cause assessments related to outages, covering the full application stack (web servers, application servers, database, etc. and uses findings to generate recommendations for preventative measures

 

- Provide input into the prioritization of nonuser facing enhancements & standards that seek to reduce costs, improve maintainability, improve reliability, and improve time to market

 

- Collaboration with Release Manager to implement continuous delivery tools and processes within the development team

 

Required Skills:

 

- 5+ years of experience in web development, web application development, and content management systems

 

- 1+ years' experience with sites & services hosted on AWS (Amazon Web Services) or similar PaaS and Linux/Unix (Apache, Felix, memcached, perl/python/shell scripting, etc)

 

- Strong experience with Java and Adobe CQ 5.x CMS (Adobe Experience Manager) and experience with Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) such as Akamai

 

- Strong experience with database technologies and data modeling related to storing structured and unstructured content (MySQL, Oracle, JSR 170, Apache Jackrabbit)

 

- Strong experience working on large scale site builds / redesigns in an agile working environment and working within Service Oriented Architectures (SOA: REST, etc)

 

- Solid understanding of full site architecture concerns (HTTP / Cookies, caching, Web Performance, scalability, security, third party integration, etc)

 

- Strong knowledge of web application lifecycle, MVC and other design patterns and solid experience with version control (SVN, Mercurial) and experience with JIRA or other ticketing software

 

- Understanding of browser compatibility and web/usability/accessibility standards

 

- Preferred: Experience with JavaScript - (including DOM, object-oriented JavaScript, Ajax, JSON, events, callbacks) and well demonstrated HTML / CSS (including HTML5 / CSS3)

 

- Preferred: Experience integrating frontend code with Java, PHP, JSP, or related languages

 

Email resume in Word to JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. NOTE: WE WILL ONLY RESPOND IF YOUR RESUME APPEARS TO FIT A ROLE

 

NO PAID RELOCATION. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES. NO 3RD PARTIES. Applicants for employment in the US must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship from the employer for a visa.

 

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