Java J2EE job description

Descrierea firmei:

Xoomworks is a professional services company focused on application, integration and managed services. Some areas that we cover are eGaming, Procurement, Spend Management and Finance.

Xoomworks was founded in 2000 by former partners of Deloitte Consulting who wanted to introduce a new style of IT services partner, combining the business consulting with technical consulting in order to successfully deliver solutions to large and mid-sized companies.

Culturally we combine the technical and business expertise of a Big 4 consultancy with the ethos and innovation of a small business.

We are looking for people who are interested in working with the latest hardware, latest technologies and latest development processes on mission critical application. We care about our employees and we invest in them

Descrierea postului:

We are looking for a dedicated, self-motivated, driven technical professional to work in a team of engineers developing for and feature-improving a highly available product using J2EE and other internet technologies for our partner, Betfair.
Betfair is the world's leading person-to-person betting exchange, using a concept which is revolutionising the betting industry.
The successful candidate will have exceptional technical and problem solving skills, with a positive, results driven attitude.

Cerinte:

Key Responsibilities / Duties:
• Review product specifications in order to give development estimates and product feedback.
• Innovative technical design and creative of technical specifications.
• Thorough, demonstrable unit testing.
• Code reviews, by and for peers.
• Software creation, adhering to and feeding back into departmental standards and guidelines.
• Technical documentation that shares knowledge effectively.

Key Working Relationships:
• This position involves working with and been part of a cross-skilled development team, and will have regular contact with teams looking after other aspects of Betfair products & tools.

Person Specification
Experience & Qualifications Required:
Essential:
• Excellent knowledge of J2EE.
• Proven commercial development experience (whole life-cycle) using J2EE technologies.
• Understanding of and experience with application architectures (client/server, web, database).
• Experience of web and application servers.
• Experienced with source control and unit testing frameworks e.g. JUnit.
• Experienced with SQL or Oracle Server databases.
• At least 4 years experience.

Desirable:
• Exposure to non-Microsoft operating systems.
• Understanding of betting / gaming systems.
• Experience with SOAP, XML, Web Services
• Web/Application Servers: JBoss, Tomcat
• Understanding of the full development cycle and some experience of Agile development methodologies

Attributes:

• Passion & flexibility to work the hours required to see projects to completion in a timely, accurate & efficient manner.
• Self motivating.
• Proven ability & desire to innovate.
• Strong analytical skills