Sr. Software Engineer New York, NY

Sr. Software Engineer

 

 

Job ID: Job-2843

location:       New York, NY

Jobtype:        Contract-to-Hire

 

Description:   

Looking for a Senior Software Engineer for anr in-house web development team to build innovative web products that support revenue growth. We're developing innovative user experiences on a platform leveraging cloud based infrastructure, APIs, social media, web content management platforms, CDNs, video platforms, SoftwareasaService (SAAS) products, and Big Data.

 

The Senior Software Engineer will 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.

 

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)

 

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

 

Functional knowledge of jQuery and 1+ year in a technical leadership capacity providing guidance, oversight, standards, and reviews to other developers

 

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