Senior Java Developer

Strong, stable and growing Internet Company is look for a strong senior developer who will have a prominent role in the organization and the technical direction it goes in.

Responsibilities:

Develop and enhance functionality on the consumer-facing web site and back-end tools and APIs.
Develop and enhance intelligent search algorithms.
Work with Hadoop, Hive, Lucene, Solr, Memcache and other bleeding-edge technologies.
Play a prominent role in building the companys social marketing and mobile platform initiatives.
Participate in project planning sessions with product management and technical team members.
Participate in functional design specification reviews and work with technical team members to determine technical design approaches.
Estimate timelines for development tasks.
Develop expertise in the application and technical infrastructure and ultimately become a subject matter expert.
Mentor and lead junior team members in Java and object oriented programming best practices.


Required Skills:

4+ years of Java/J2EE web application development, on a high traffic, Internet site
4+ years of application development experience
Strong understanding of Java 6, Servlets 2.4, JSP 2.0, JDBC, and SQL
Understanding and experience with common design patterns, such as MVC, Factory, FaÇade, Delegate, Builder, Template.
Familiarity with Spring Framework, Log4J, Ant, JSTL
Understanding of a J2EE compliant application server
Ability to design and implement scalable and maintainable software.
Familiarity with object/data caching frameworks
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Working knowledge of Linux


Desired Skills:

Spring JDBC Template or Hibernate
Experience with NoSQL data stores
Experience with Hadoop
Understanding of JavaScript, HTML, and DHTML
XML and Web Services/REST
Experience with MySQL
Experience with multi-tier architectures
Experience with thread programming


Minimum Education Required: Bachelor

Years of Experience Required: More than 5 years

Expected Travel Time: None

This company may offer relocation assistance.

This employer may consider providing Visa sponsorship.