Software Engineer - Java

Job Description

Directi is a $300+ million group of businesses, creating Internet products for millions of global users. You will be part of teams that are responsible for architecting and developing our large-scale, globally distributed, software solutions. These projects involve myriad technologies, diverse platforms, networking concepts, complex algorithms and latest application paradigms such as Ajax, SOA etc and are deployed across hundreds of servers, process terabytes of traffic, and serve millions of users

Responsibilities

• Create large scale, highly available, distributed, client-server applications as a member of high energy teams
• Apply OOPs, SOA, Design Patterns and use frameworks like Wicket, Spring, iBATIS to build extensible and scalable modular applications

Requirements

Educational Qualifications:

• Preferably from a Software Engineering/technical background
• High Academic performance and consistency will be considered an advantage

Detailed Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in building web applications in Java / JSP / Servlets
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent grasp/understanding of OOPs and Design Patterns
• Knowledge and understanding of data structures, RDBMs
• Exposure to SOAP, XML-RPC or some remoting / Distributed computing / SOA technologies
• Experience in using Wicket, Spring, Hibernate, iBATIS, Struts and similar frameworks
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of HTTP, Cookies, Session Management
• Fair knowledge of Networking, TCP/IP
• Excellent knowledge of and working experience with HTML, CSS and Javascript, Ajax toolkits
• Experience in using SCM tools like CVS, SVN etc and using issue-tracking tools like JIRA/Mantis etc
• Process oriented: Demonstrable commitment to following processes, commenting, documentation, testing etc

Bonus points:

• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies (XP, Scrum etc)
• Active blogger
• Contribution to opensource projects
• Ability to rattle off the names of every planet from Issac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy alphabetically … in reverse