Job Seekers, Please send resumes to resumes@hireitpeople.comPosition Description
Do you change your variable names until your code reads like Poetry? Do you debate Single Responsibility Principal with your friends over a frothy beverage? Do you have super powers, when you touch a keyboard? Do you feel anxiety when you think about leaving a red test to take a bio-break? Do you like to deliver software that matters? Is Java more then a drink to you? Do you dream of JQuery at night? Do you practice the principals? Do you like to learn new things? Do you like to teach others?
If you answered yes to many of these, Come practice the art of Software Craftsmanship at Cengage Learning!
Company leading provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions for the academic, professional and library markets worldwide. The company's products and services are designed to foster academic excellence and professional development, increase student engagement, improve learning outcomes and deliver authoritative information to people whenever and wherever they need it.
The Software Developer III will be responsible for application development and support of high-quality, electronic products. The Developer will work in a highly collaborative, cross functional and Agile team. The Developer will also be responsible for developing unit testing and overall integration tests for the project team.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
• Test-drives awesome code, working closely with other Agile team members.
• Gets things done. Takes ownership of tasks when others do not. Helps drive the completion of all kinds of work tasks.
• Provide just-in-time design for small increments of work.
• Helps break down, estimate, and provide just-in-time design for small increments of work.
• Builds a strong team using their collaboration skills.
• Promotes improvements in version control, continuous integration, project build, and project automation.
• Pair programs with different people in many situations.
• Performs root cause analysis, technology evaluation, and design spikes.
• Provides direction and shares knowledge with team members in areas of expertise
• Continuously learns, and is unafraid to learn new practices, processes, technologies, and languages.
• Continuously acts to enhance knowledge of new technologies, business processes, and project management skills, staying abreast of trends, latest industry developments and knowledge sharing among colleagues
• Provides development and support for portions of one or more applications which may span multiple product or platform development teams
• Commits to completing well-defined work, and delivers on those commitments.
• Participates in weekly iteration demos for product managers
• Reports status of assigned software development and/or maintenance tasks
• Consistently follows software development methodology
Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
Required
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent combination of education and recent, relevant work experience
• Minimum 5 years software development experience including 3 years of combined Java and/or JavaScript programming experience
• Knowledge of and desire to work in an Agile development environment.
• Thorough understanding of and experience in object oriented design and programming
• Familiarity with wide portfolio of software development applications, environments and languages
• Experience using source code control systems, such as Git, Subversion, or CVS
• Knowledge of XML parsing, and DOM traversal.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills required
• Creative problem solving skills and ability to effectively communicate and translate feedback, needs and solutions
• Must have strong teamwork orientation and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams
• Must be sensitive to cultural differences in interactions and in the way work is done
• Needs good work ethic and strong sense of ownership of end result
• May require up to 10% travel, including international travel
Preferred
• Advanced degree preferred
• Experience with Agile development methodologies, including XP methods such as Test Driven Development and pair programming
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks, such as Backbone.js, JavaScript MVC, jQuery, etc.
• Experience with Advanced JavaScript (including prototype-based inheritance, event delegation, closures, AJAX, JSON)
• Experience with a variety of Database Systems, such as LDAP, Oracle, Sybase, MongoDB, NoSQL
• Knowledge of search engine development, particularly with Lucene as a component
• Understanding of Web Standards, Accessibility, and command of Semantic markup (XHTML, HTML5)
• Passion for working in the academic, professional or library markets, and experience with technologies within those markets such as LMS, eReaders, OPAC, OpenURL, Z39.50, and SRU/SRW
• Experience developing for mobile devices
