Senior Java Software Engineer

In the world of professional sports, the National Football League (NFL) blitzes the competition. The organization oversees America's most popular spectator sport and has the highest per-game attendance of any domestic professional sports league in the world, The NFL governs and promotes the game, sets and enforces rules, and regulates team ownership. It also offers:

NFL Network is the year-round programming network fully-owned and operated by the NFL and is a destination for all that happens around the league, on and off the field - during the season and throughout the non-playing season.  Each year, NFL Network televises more than 200 NFL games.  NFL Network is the gathering place of the NFL, using the latest digital media applications to bring a new dimension to the NFL experience. The passion, the excitement, the highs and the lows are covered by NFL Network from an insider's perspective.

NFL.com, the official site of the National Football League, delivers in-depth team pages for all clubs, extensive game-day coverage with real time statistics, and play-by-play and chats with top players. It also continues to provide fans with one of the most complete fantasy football games online as well as exclusive highlights, photos and game previews.

Sr Java Software Engineer

The NFL Digital Media Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will be part of a team of software engineers that will architect, implement, and maintain various web applications for the NFL from inception to launch and beyond. The web applications include high volume, public facing websites, content management systems, internal tools, and backend processes.

Job Responsibilities:Design, develop, test, and support new, custom software applications for the league’s digital media business. Help build out a suite of online applications for NFL properties. Work to develop online community and social networking features. Work closely in a team with other software engineers, quality assurance, web developers, and project management. Meet aggressive performance and scalability goals to address unique traffic patterns and emergence of new technologies. Guide other engineers on architecture, implementation and advanced technologies. 

Qualifications:Bachelor's degree preferred, preferably in Computer Science Expertise with Java and Java web based technologies. (Java, Spring, Hibernate, JDBC) 5-7 years of progressively responsible related technical experience Proven experience with one or more of the following: Complex, high-traffic web applications Content Managment Systems (e.g. alfresco, documentum) Feed processing Data migration Strong teamwork and communication skills Ability to meet aggressive implementation deadlines Apache, Tomcat experience required. Lucene, JBoss, experience a plus Application Design/Architecture a must Knowledge of sports and experience in online media preferred a plus

Please respond with resume to laresume@nfl.com