Lead Software Engineer (Java)

Shopzilla, formerly BizRate.com, is the world’s largest and fastest growing shopping search engine. Based in West Los Angeles, CA, Shopzilla is a part of the $7.2 billion E.W. Scripps Company.

As our Lead Software Engineer, you will:

• Review, Design and Document implementation details from Architecture
• Lead the implementation of product
• Participate in Testing design and Code Reviews
• Refactor and optimize complex systems
• Introduce technologies and best practices to our development environment
• Work with business to build rich user interfaces

Your qualifications include:

• 8+ years Software Engineering experience
• 5+ years Java development experience in a production environment
• 2+ years in a  Lead role in development experience including directing work to more junior developers and interfacing with development management
• Experience developing using OOD/OOA/OOP in a large scale production environment
• Experience with CVS/SVN, Ant, Junit, Regular Expressions, Networking protocols, Hibernate and various file formats (e.g. XML, CSV, Sybase RDBMS plus various Unix utilities (e.g. grep, awk, etc).
• Experience with data modeling and code organization for n-tier OOAD web applications
• B.S. in Computer Science or similar Analytic field of study

So, if you are the super-star type -- the one all look to as the smartest in your area of expertise -- love challenging yourself, and are searching for a place to work where people care, your ideas matter and you can make a real difference to helping millions of consumers, then we need to talk.


About Shopzilla:

With an index of over 50 million products from more than 90,000 stores, gathered, organized and presented using all proprietary leading-edge technology, Shopzilla provides consumers the best way to find virtually anything for sale, anywhere, and at the best price. In addition to our flagship site (http://www.shopzilla.com), Shopzilla also powers shopping search for many of the Web's largest consumer sites.

At Shopzilla, our goal is to build the greatest shopping service ever conceived by mankind. To that end, we strive very hard to hire the smartest people. We’re an environment where great ideas shape our vision and true passion drives us to the best solutions to the most challenging problems at the intersection of shopping and search.

Shopzilla offers great benefits including medical, dental and vision plans, life insurance, 401(k) plan, flexible spending account, generous vacation benefits -- and we even provide FREE catered lunch every single day!

Shopzilla is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

 Apply here or Send resume directly to: tasam@shopzilla.com