Senior Web Developer - Bedford, MA

Senior Web Developer

 

We have an opening for a senior web developer – someone who lives and breathes the web and open source JAVA based technology.

 About us

We’re an information provider that utilizes the web in nearly every aspect of our business.  Our products are magazines, online databases, online charting/graphing/sorting applications, and subscriber based web portals. Our customers are businesses that depend on our mission-critical information for many of their most-valued transactions.  Although we support a traditional industry – are products are online first and innovative amongst our audience.

 

We’re also in high-growth mode with more development ongoing than we can shake a stick at.  Our business is growing, our customer demands are increasing, and our online products are developing quicker than ever.  We’re expanding our web development team and looking for someone who is interested in building, re-building, and supporting many web products.  This position reports to the Director of Web Development.

 About our technology

Our technology is modern and based on the JAVA based open source J2EE framework.  We many of the typical JAVA based web technologies – Linux, Apache, Tomcat, MYSQL, Lucene, Hibernate, Subversion, Omniture, Eclipse, and various other related tools for development.  We invest in our technology and our people – you won’t be bored here.

 About you

First and foremost: love the web and building its products.  Want to be part of a growing, yet mid-sized company with a lot going for it.

 

We are looking for a person who will be responsible for the design, development and maintenance of small to large web-based applications. Additionally this person will be responsible for supporting internal as well as external users and must possess strong written and verbal skills – meaning, you need to be able to communicate with various types of folks.

 

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years building web based applications based on top of JAVA, be familiar with the software development process, and be capable of working in a team or independently while communicating with various types of people.

 Required SkillsProficiency with J2EE and the fundamentals of object-oriented programming, including software design concepts and design patternsFamiliarity with Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate, MYSQL, and Eclipse based development within the MVC/IoC architectureExperience in various phases of project lifecycle, including requirements gathering, software design, development and testing Ability to work effectively in both Red Hat Linux and Windows operating system environmentsSolid database skills with MySQLExperience coding in JSP, Tiles and VelocityExperience working with Eclipse IDE and SubversionExperience using both Apache and TomcatExperience coding XML/XSL

 

Experience with the following is also desired but is not considered a mandatory requirement:

 A big plus would be development experience within a Media or other Information companyExperience with AJAXExperience coding in Ruby on Rails nice to haveExperience coding Perl and PHPExperience with LuceneExperience writing Unix shell script

 

To apply for this position, please send resume with cover letter including salary requirements to jobs@risiinfo.com and indicate Job Code SRWD-Bed08.  (No phone calls, please.) Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer.  For more information on RISI, please visit our website at www.risiinfo.com.

 

RISI, Inc. benefits offered include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short and long term disability, AD & D, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, 401K plan, employee assistance program, employee referral program, tuition reimbursement, vacation, PTO time, 10 paid holidays per year, floating holidays.

 

Keywords: J2EE, Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate, MYSQL, Eclipse, MVC/IoC, Red Hat Linux,Windows, MySQL, JSP, Tiles,Velocity, Eclipse IDE, Subversion, Apache, Tomcat, XML/XSL, JAVA