Senior Java Software Developer

Sr Java Software Developer

Job ID: 2013-16573

# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 4/29/2013
Job Location: US-MA-Boston
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Information Technology

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO).

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities
- Works closely with other software engineers and software architects to design and deliver web services based solutions to large, complex business problems in the areas of ecommerce, online identity management, access rights management, and course/enrollment management.
- Delivers solutions primarily on Java platforms, using open standards, and third party tools and frameworks to deliver high quality, robust and maintainable products.
- Performs highly complex product design, systems analysis and programming activities which may require some research.
- Is able to decompose requirements into tasks and provide estimates for those tasks.
- Ensures that code adheres to strict standards for accessibility, security, object-oriented practices and performance.
- Writes and conducts unit and integration tests.
- Applies Agile/Scrum practices for successful, sustainable delivery of software solutions.
- Works with Business Analysts, Project Managers and Product Managers to ensure solutions meet product requirements.
- Effectively functions and communicates within a software development team consisting of developers, quality assurance, product management and project management members.
- Actively participates in requirements, architecture, design and planning meetings.
- Writes documentation for both internal and external consumers, covering design artifacts, code, and fixes.
- Provides technical mentoring to other team members.

Qualifications
- 7-9 years of experience in enterprise-scale or internet-scale development with Java and J2EE.
- Very strong skills in data modeling and Object Oriented design principles, including web services design, API design and design patterns
- Proven experience with the J2EE technology stack: EJB (Session and Entity), Servlets, JSP, JMX, JTS, JTA, JDBC, JNDI.
- Proven experience with pattern based enterprise design with strong focus upon decoupling and abstraction (ie MVC, Service Facades, Value Object, DAO, etc.)
- Proven background with refactoring code to support unit and acceptance tests.
- Experience of relational database systems, specifically Oracle.
- Experience with standardized project build/management tools and artifact repositories, specifically Maven and Nexus.
- Hands-On experience with code quality toolsets (ie CheckStyle, PMD, Surefire reports/metrics) within the IDE and continuous integration environments.
- Working experience with Spring framework and Hibernate.
- Experience with RESTful services (design, tooling, testing).
- Experience with integration frameworks (ESB, BPEL, JMS).
- Experience with Agile/Scrum practices and processes, including knowledge of/participation in, user stories, sprints, demos and retrospectives.
- Good knowledge of Linux platform.
- Behavior driven development (TDD, ATDD) techniques is a plus.
- Experience working with NoSQL, in memory caches/databases (Memcached, Jboss Cache, Redis, MongoDB) is a plus.
- Hands-On experience with Oracle Weblogic 11g+ is a plus.
- College Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent qualifications and experience.

Desired abilities:
- Ability to learn and actively seek new skills and knowledge to keep up with latest technology trends
- Ability to think creatively, adapt to circumstances, learn from co-workers, and share information and experiences
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and in a team based environment
- Ability to work pro-actively and efficiently in a fast paced environment

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