Sr. Software Engineer - Java/J2EE - OpenMarket

Position Description

If you are interested in a Startup Environment and don’t have to worry about the financial state of the company, plus you have an entrepreneurial spirit then this is where you belong.

This is such a great opportunity for someone who wants to grow with a company and have ownership of the product they are working on.

Important to our culture: smart, fun, someone who wants a work-life balance, integrity, among other strong attributes we look for in someone to join our great world.

Other reasons to join OpenMarket:

o wireless is booming
o alternative payments is booming
o we are at the heart of both for the mobile space in the US
o we have a strategic advantage in this space over anyone else with our ownership by Amdocs (a huge telecom/wireless provider) and Qpass (who runs the software inside many of the carriers) – so we have access and insights to both sides of the commerce equation – consumers and carriers.



SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

This is a software engineering position in a world-class software organization, developing high scale J2EE applications. Those who succeed here are smart, results-oriented team players who delight in shipping high quality software that customers love.


MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Work with Program and Product Managers to understand business goals and issues.
• Work with management to development software development estimates, identify potential delivery risks and to formulate execution strategies to optimize efforts and minimize risk.
• Design, build, configure, and test application software built on the OpenMarket platform.
• Assist the professional services and operations organization with the deployment and configuration of applications in the production environment.
• Provide direction and education to more junior programmers regarding designs and professional coding knowledge and standards in general.
• Demonstrate leadership capabilities and eventual capacity to coordinate and lead a team of engineers.
• Assist with ongoing sustenance of software owned by your engineering team.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS

Required
• 5+ years systems integration experience with a heavy focus on software design and development.
• 5+ years object oriented and / or component software design.
• 5+ years solid experience implementing Web-based systems in high volume enterprise-class environments.
• 5+ years software development experience with Linux, Apache, Tomcat, J2EE (preferably BEA Weblogic), Java, and SQL.
• 2+ years experience with junit required.
• 2+ years experience with UML required.
• Experience with XML structure and transformation technologies (such as XSD, XSL, etc) required, experience with XMLbeans or JAXB desired.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability/initiative to define and evolve processes to ensure continuous improvement. Process-focused but not bureaucratic.
• Adaptable, able to acquire technical and business skills needed to integrate with and satisfy our diverse clients rapidly.
• Team player.
• Quality-focused, customer-focused.
• Action oriented. Possess a strong bias for action; takes it personally when an issue is unresolved.
• Confident and polished. Demonstrated ability to make our internal customers feel confident in our ability to get job done.

Desired
• SOAP experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with SOA and enterprise application integration technologies and patterns strongly preferred.
• Experience with developing under iterative development processes (e.g., RUP, XP, Scrum) strongly preferred.
• Some project management experience desired, including system roll-out and data conversion. While this position doesn’t require you to manage projects, your experience here can help you be a more effective member of the team.
• Strong understanding of with web security mechanisms (e.g., SSL, Digital Certificates) preferred.


ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Contribute to the overall success of the Engineering organization.
• Provide input into improvements of core engineering assets. Design, build, configure, test changes to the OpenMarket platform, given appropriate review with owners of that technology.
• Assist support and operations in resolving configuration and technical issues in a “last tier” support capacity.
• Perform other projects/assignments as assigned by supervisor.
• Occasional travel may be required.
• Some off-hours / on-call support may be required.

EDUCATION/TRAINING REQUIRED
Required
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related discipline.

Desired
• Sun Certification in J2EE.
• Sun Certification in Java.

Position is located in Seattle, WA.


This is a full-time (exempt) position.

How to Apply

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