Waterford Institute

The Waterford Software Development Group has an opening for a full-time Java Software Engineer with J2EE experience. This developer will work in an agile team environment maintaining, enhancing and developing educational software used in schools in the US and international teaching English, Math and Science. The work involves both client and server-side development, includes evasive problem troubleshooting and resolution in existing code and provides optimization challenges in complex network deployment environments and web-delivery models.
This is a full-time position with a M-F 7:00 am – 4:00 pm daily schedule.

Responsibilities

• Design and development of both client and server-side components
• Improve performance in all aspects of the product
• Optimization and troubleshooting of existing code
• Maintenance and enhance of legacy code
• Work with agile teams to provide accurate sizing of tasks
• Help teams successfully complete tasks on time, even if work required includes tasks outside of the programming domain
• Participate in peer design and code reviews
• Work effectively with peers in remote offices (US and International)

Requirements

• BS in CS or equivalent experience
• 2 or more years full-time J2EE programming experience
• Working experience with EJB3 and/or Spring
• Working experience with Hibernate and/or JPA
• Experience with JDK 5 and/or 6
• Database programming experience (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with the following tools: Eclipse/Subversion/Maven/Jira
• Working knowledge of Web Services (SOAP/REST)
• Flexibility in work hours may be required due to time zones of remote offices

Preferred Skills

• Mac native programming experience
• Experience using RIA frameworks (GWT, Ext JS, JQuery, Flex)
• Working knowledge of network technologies and programming experience optimizing network client/server performance (WAN/MAN/LAN) and communications (SMB, TCP/IP)
• HTML5 programming experience
• Experience with JBoss
• Objective C and iPhone/iPad development experience
• Experience with Actionscript
• Experience with Groovy or Scala
• Experience with NoSQL technologies

Benefits

• 403(b) retirement plan, matched up to 5%
• Medical, dental, life, STD, LTD, and AD&D insurances
• Consistent 40-hour work week
• Great work environment