Java J2EE Developer

POSITION DESCRIPTION:            

The Senior Developer works as a Scrum team member, applying practical experience in the key disciplines of software engineering - not limited to object-oriented design and programming, configuration management, testing, and more - to deliver incremental but complete pieces of business value to stakeholders.

A Senior Developer also demonstrates the skills and knowledge of a seasoned JAVA/J2EE PROGRAMMER but also growth and abilities beyond 'just JAVA', by showing capability and experience once or more of RUBY/RAILS/GROOVY/GRAILS, Erlang, advanced and modern JavaScript frameworks, and so on.

QUALIFICATIONS:

- A minimum of SEVEN YEARS OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE, with a strong focus on application development
- MINIMUM FIVE YEARS OF JAVA EXPERIENCE, or a mix of other modern programming languages, where three years or more to include J2EE DEVELOPMENT AGAINST CLUSTER-ABLE APPLICATION SERVERS OR ENTERPRISE FRAMEWORKS.
- Three or more years of object-oriented JavaScript experience
- Strong experience in non-procedural programming, or applying functional-style concepts professionally considered a plus. Similarly, experience with Erlang a plus.
- Strong working knowledge of XML/XSL/JSON, HTML, and associated modern technologies
- Have previous experience, of at least three years, building medium- to large-scale, "mission critical" "high availability" production systems that directly support essential business, technical, or operational functions.
- Three or more years experience with digital video and audio systems development a plus
- Demonstrable excellent design skills and the related strengths in clearly articulating difficult technical concepts and information
- Can critically evaluate code as a method of learning, and knows when and how to safely refactor code/artifacts
- Experience with cataloging, library, search, and metadata intensive systems preferred
- Five or more years experience developing systems with enterprise, commercial relational databases, including strong working knowledge of SQL and modern ORM tools
- Candidates capable of demonstrating experience in one or more of the following areas strongly preferred: release management of enterprise-class system code and artifacts, data and schema modelling, user interface development, human factors, build/deployment management, asynchronous/high-latency programming concepts and tools not limited to JMS messaging, or video coding.
- Experience with Agile methodologies (examples include Scrum or Kanban) required. Must demonstrate considerable enthusiasm for the practices that allow for continuous deployment and incremental delivery of business value.
- Should exhibit good system engineering skills (eg, common industry database design and practices, application architectures, operating systems concepts, networking, etc.) in addition to skills in application development.