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Job Title: Senior Java/J2EE Developer - Cars.com

Company Name: Classified Ventures, LLC

Location: Chicago, IL

Profession: Software Design/Development

Job Description:

Working within a dynamic and fast paced team environment, the Senior Developer is responsible for the design, construction, and maintenance of mission-critical, highly visible applications in direct support of Cars.com business objectives. The ideal candidate must be able to provide development expertise within his/her portfolio of products and be the point of contact for specific applications. Furthermore, this person is responsible for working with the leads to develop the technical design by fully understanding the technical details, integration, and functions of multiple applications across their development team.
Required Skills

    * Participate in design sessions with IT Architecture and Development Leads.
    * Works with a team of peers to design and implement planned and unplanned products in support of strategic business and IT initiatives.
    * Participates in peer review sessions throughout design and development phases for multiple projects at any given time.
    * Documents design, deliverables, source, and release notes in the interest of supporting future development and operations staff.
    * Assists Quality Assurance engineers in issue identification, isolation, and remediation issues during formal QA cycles.
    * Continuously improves, refines, and refactors software.
    * Participates in the resolution of challenging and demanding problems across a number of technical topographies.
    * Verifies that non-production environments accurate and functional.
    * Works with IT Delivery Manager to identify areas of improvement within the development and supporting teams.
    * Working as a “change agent,” this person must look to provide suggestions and implementation strategies towards the full execution of our SDLC.
    * Participates in requirement reviews, actively working to uncover and resolve ambiguous and invalid requirements.

Required Experience

    * Understands, articulates, and conforms to core OOP principles.
    * Understands, utilizes, and leverages core Java architecture and has experience in open source project development using Java, Spring, Hibernate, MVC (Struts).
    * 6-8 years of web-based development experience in enterprise-scale J2EE design and implementation.
    * Comfortable offering input across requirements phases and distilling the product into fine-grained deliverables.
    * Excellent problem solving skills and troubleshooting skills. Must be able to quickly assess problems and determine proper steps to resolution.
    * Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. Ability to work well with a wide variety of people with varying technical skill sets and business knowledge is required.
    * Willingness to develop domain expertise.
    * Experience with web services (WSDL, SOAP, REST, etc.) is a plus.
    * Experience working within/constructing service oriented architectures (SOA) is a plus.
    * IBM specific expertise, specifically Portal/Process Server, is a plus.

Education Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems (related/commensurate experience acceptable)

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