Database Platform Engineer

Req ID: 805
Essential Responsibilities:
- Take lead responsibility for key functional areas of our platform
- Work closely with the Platform Architect to assess technical design and overall technology roadmap for your respective area. Ensure we meet our scalability and performance objectives
- Work collaboratively with the rest of the organization to define protocols and overall system architecture and design
- Work with our off-shore development team on a daily basis
- Work closely with our QA lead to ensure we have appropriate test processes in place and they align with development roadmaps and release processes
- Stay up-to-date on trends in cloud computing and automotive head unit architectures

Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years experience developing Java applications., preferably with J2EE and Apache Tomcat
- Solid undestanding of OOD concepts and ability to apply them to solve software design issues.
- Experience with complex software product/service delivery architectures that involve multiple components supporting large high-volume mission-critical consumer-facing Internet environments
- Comfortable with using Spring MVC 3.x
- Strong knowledge of RDBMs concepts, ability to diagnose/address SQL performance issues
- Experience with creating unit tests using one of the Mock technologies.
- Experience writing web services delivered through JSON and/or SOAP APIs
- Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs (ie. Google, Facebook, Yelp, Twitter) through server-side applications
- Experience with Unix systems, specifically Linux
- Some experience in performance optimization of high-volume, distributed web services
- Track record of strong troubleshooting and problem resolution skills
- Strong communications skills; ability to work cross functionally and with geographically distributed teams
- BS Computer Science/Engineering required, MS strongly preferred.
- Proficient in English

Desired Characteristics:
- Experience developing location-based services
- Experience working with Amazon Web Services or other cloud-based hosting environments is a plus.
- Experience integrating payments and/or billing platforms for web-based or mobile payment processing, especially recurring billing systems, is desired.
- Familiarity with database architectures
- Prior professional exposure to the automotive industry

Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, HARMAN (NYSE: HAR) designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of audio and infotainment solutions for the automotive, consumer and professional markets - supported by 15 leading brands, including AKG, Harman Kardon, Infinity, JBL, Lexicon and Mark Levinson. The company is admired by audiophiles across multiple generations and supports leading professional entertainers and the venues where they perform. More than 25 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of about 13,400 people across the Americas, Europe and Asia, and reported sales of $4.4 billion for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012. Harman is an equal opportunity employer, offering a great work environment, challenging career opportunities, professional training and competitive compensation.