Wednesday 19 February 2014

Lead Software Engineer #2013-4457 | Orbitz, LLC | US-IL-Chicago



Lead Software Engineer #2013-4457 | Orbitz, LLC | US-IL-Chicago


2013-4457

Posting Job Title 
Lead Software Engineer
Job Location 
US-IL-Chicago
Category 
Technology
More information about this job:
Overview:
Orbitz Worldwide is a leading online travel company offering leisure and business travelers a wide selection of low airfares, as well as deals on lodging, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages and other travel.

We have a dynamic, fast-paced environment, and consequently offer an excellent opportunity for leadership, creativity and personal success. A high degree of responsibility and accountability for decisions made is key to take further steps along an attractive career path.

Orbitz is currently looking for a Lead Engineer to take a technical leadership role on one of our feature teams.
Responsibilities:
Lead Engineers are hands-on engineers with extensive experience within the domain of a feature or component team. Equally they are recognized and respected as leaders within their sphere of influence; within their own team they must be natural leaders. They are able to prioritize amongst competing demands. They can serve as the technical lead on a feature during Envisioning and Definition. They serve as a resource for other team members, often mentoring less experienced engineers as a way to transfer knowledge and build competency. They are likely to be involved with a Solution Architect during Definition to ensure that stories are documented sufficiently and backlogs are well formed. They are recognized within the organization for their deep knowledge within a vertical in the travel industry. Lead Engineers report to Feature and Component team leads. Lead Engineers consistently reinforce their sustained mastery of the job requirements for a Senior Engineer.
Qualifications:
Technical Depth: 
  • Expert in a relevant open source and/or licensed software technology. Demonstrated by   certifications, publications, contributions, speaking engagements, and hard-earned production experience.
  • Capable of triaging a production incident for their own applications in addition to all layers above   and below their applications.
  • Able to identify, utilize or avoid recurring patterns within their relevant application stack.
  • Shows broad-scale systems-level thinking and implements appropriate technical architectures that enhance the fundamental enterprise architecture.
  • Expert at designing for testability.
  • Pragmatically define and refine standards.
Qualifications: 
  • MS in Computer Sciences or related field or related, relevant experience.
  •  7+ years experience in development
  • Expertise in server-side Java, application servers, object oriented design, JDBC, XML, HTTP, Web Services, Spring, Hibernate, Ant, and JUnit.
  • Experience with high volume, high-availability multi-threaded distributed applications.
  • Strong interpersonal and communications skills, excellent analytical skills, flexibility, ability to plan and organize, responsiveness, creativity.
  • Demonstrated ability to perform in demanding multi-tasking environments.
  • Experience with Unix/Linux or similar Operating Systems, application servers, web servers and scripting languages.
  • Experience in modeling databases & writing complex, performance efficient SQL queries, & mentoring junior level staff.
  • Strong XP programming skills preferred
  • Experience with Agile (SCRUM, RUP, Kanban etc…..)

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