Senior Software Developer/Java Architect

Our client is looking for an extremely talented Sr. Software Developer/Java Architect. This position calls for a multi-talented engineer to design and develop a consumer facing application platform. The ideal candidate must have extensive experience designing and deploying high-volume dynamically-created web applications.

This Java architect will be fully responsible for the application architecture. In this role you will provide architectural direction, ensuring that the system architecture integrates hardware, software, data, and procedural system components to satisfy system requirements. The individual will assist in migrating us from our legacy systems to Java based technologies. This person will also collaborate with the business and product leads to translate business and product requirements into technology requirements and recommend viable business, product, and technical options.

If you're looking to work in a fast-paced startup, love fiddling with the latest tools and applications, can develop awesome products from scratch, want to integrate the newest web components (including dare we say web 2.0- components), work well with UI designers, want to be part of a small team focused on delivering a customer-focused solution addressing unmet customer needs, and you've got the skills we're looking for, we want to hear from you.

Title: Senior Software Developer/Java Architect
Location: San Francisco, CA
Compensation: Very Competitive

Summary of Role and Deliverables

- Define the technical implementation for our online offerings, working from high level product requirements and detailed UI specifications and prototype
- Work directly with product manager and UI designer to understand business and user requirements and flesh out technical implementation based on those needs
- Identify and drive selection of 3rd party and open source tools, applications, and components for integration into offering
- Develop architecture strategy, including migration and implementation plan
- Implement the product offering using your preferred tools
- Mentor the other developers on the team, do code reviews, and help guide process

Essential Skills & Experience

- Innovative and creative, solutions oriented
- Desire to work in a small, fast-paced environment
- Must have experience working in small companies (<50 people)
- Must have experience implementing a market-successful 1.0 offering
- Able to understand business objectives and translate product requirements and UI requirements into working product offering and documents
- Ability to define architecture, implement offering, and lead/mentor team of engineers
- Excellent interpersonal skills, although a bit of over-confidence is acceptable just so long as you can back it with awesome coding
- Experience designing, implementing, and deploying a hosted product
- 8+ year successful track record designing and developing complex multi-tiered high performance Web applications (please provide list of sites developed)

Required Technical Skills

- Java Expert
- Proven experience working with PERL and C++
- MySQL or other database experience
- 8+ years integrating content management systems, including high-availability databases
- 5+ years architectural leadership experience with multi-terabyte database-backed hosted web applications; well versed with both OLTP and OLAP systems
- Must have hardware scaling and software tuning experience; experience designing software systems for hosted environments; extensive knowledge of networking and network protocols; design patterns and distributed systems
- 5+ years experiencebuilding J2EE webapplications (using JSP, servlets, struts)
- 5+ years LAMP stack experience (LAMP = Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python)
- 5+ years detailed data modeling experience
- 5+years experience with at least one, preferably two, major commercial RDBMS
- Understanding of issues related to business logic in stored procedures vs. in middle tier
- 3+ years experience with web page templating frameworks in J2EE and LAMP
- Must have used at least one application framework for a modern agile language (Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl) such as Zope, Ruby On Rails, HTML:Mason, TurboGears (6 months - 1 yr ) and be able to articulate the risk/reward of using an agile framework.
- Intimate understanding of the issues around the use of web infrastructure technologies such as session management, web caching, virtual hosting, DNS

IMPORTANT
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