Principle Platform Engineer

Apply by eMail:15333907.185@jobfrenzy1.com

Description:
- leadership(hands on developing at the same time) - process creation
- collaborative style
- working with product management
- driving Agile and TTD
- exp. around Multitenant architecture - more elaborating on the SOA/co branding you discussed with me
- security auth




Title:
Principal Software Engineer, Platform




Department:
Product Development




Reports to:
Manager / Director, Engineering




Status:
Regular Full-time




Location:
Oakland







Position Summary:




The Principal Software Engineer will provide strong technical leadership for the platform team in the product development division. The platform team ensures that our software can be deployed standalone, on-premise, or on-demand for a number of different markets.




The ideal candidate is a very senior software developer with expert hands-on skills that developing SaaS or cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate always seeks to determine whats possible within the constraints of the business and technology. This position has high visibility and impact within the product development organization, and the ideal candidate will be able to take on large areas of responsibility for both new code and existing code.




Detailed Responsibilities

Senior team member of the cross-functional platform development scrum team. Facilitates adoption of a transparent development process that is flexible and embraces change.

Collaborates with the Product Owner to ensure that the software meets the companys business objectives and technical standards.

Must have the ability to coordinate technical activities across multiple geographies, technology stacks, and release vehicles.

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Ensures best practices and architectural rigor during the software design process, providing input and time estimates for alternative strategies and solutions.

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Produces detailed designs and software prototypes relevant to assigned programming tasks.

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Writes well-documented, extensible software code that is easy to maintain, and that adheres to generally accepted programming standards and OOP practices.

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Responsible for evaluating and recommending software and hardware architecture solutions within the scope of assigned projects.

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Regularly attends stand up meetings and tracks project status, deadlines, and evaluates project and technical risks.

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Sets and achieves personal goals for growth and acquisition of new technical skills, keeping pace with new developments in technology.

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Provides regular status reports on progress, and provides notification of any changes / impediments that impact project schedules.

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Accountable for ultimate quality and performance of all programming work.

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Interacts with QA to conscientiously identify and fix software bugs in a timely manner.

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Produces and maintains technical designs and documentation relevant to assigned programming tasks.




Requirements

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8-12+ years experience in product development in the software industry

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Extensive hands-on software development experience with Java, J2EE. C++, C#, and PHP experience a plus.

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Expertise with server-side issues such as distributed computing, persistence, security, SSO, state management, high scalability, and failover.

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Strong experience writing scalable, server-side software for a production SaaS business highly desirable; experience should include multi-tenancy design and implementation.

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Strong experience with open source Java frameworks such as Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Maven, Cocoon, Xerces, Acegi, JSecurity, CXF, XFire, and Xalan.

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Experience writing cloud or SaaS deployed applications using Amazon EC2 or S3.

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Experience leveraging continuous integration (CI) frameworks such as Hudson, Cruise Control, or Bamboo.

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Strong understanding of web services (REST, SOAP, JSON) and middleware (ESB, integration server) technologies.

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Strong knowledge of OO design patterns and web protocols, frameworks, and technologies.

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Adobe Flash, and Adobe Flex application development experience a plus. BlazeDS expertise or Adobe AIR apps experience a big plus.

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BS Computer Science / MS Computer Science or equivalent work experience.




Additional Desired Skills

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Previous experience with Java-based web publishing frameworks such as Struts and Cocoon.

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Developing web applications for deployment in Tomcat or JBoss containers.

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Source control management (SCM) experience using Perforce or svn.

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C++ development experience with Visual Studio .NET and/or XCode for Windows and Mac OS X.

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Experience leading Scrums using Version One a plus.

Requirements:
Desired skills: .

Education: Bachelor

Experience: More than 5 years

Travel: None

Apply by eMail:15333907.185@jobfrenzy1.com

Job Created: Sat Oct 17 2009 04:27:21 AM
Last Modified: Sat Oct 17 2009 04:27:21 AM