Senior Software Engineer, Java #1400024 | Blizzard Entertainment | San Francisco, California, United States
Senior Software Engineer, Java (San Francisco)
Battle.net
Office: San Francisco, California, United States
Blizzard
Entertainment is growing our presence in San Francisco and is looking
for a senior software engineer to join its elite Battle.net team. We
want to hear from seasoned engineers who will put their experience and
enthusiasm to good use, helping the team produce the most epic
customer-facing site experiences possible. You’ll be responsible for
creating new (and improving existing) applications in a high-load,
high-availability environment, as well as helping to drive architecture
and best practices across the team. As a senior software engineer,
you’ll be expected to be a strong individual contributor in addition to
effectively working with the team to drive project success, and have the
proven ability to release quality software in a rapid development
lifecycle. The ideal candidate must be passionate about technology, the
web, video games, and a desire to work in a creative, challenging and
rewarding environment.
About Battle.net
The Battle.net team
develops all our customer-facing web sites, ranging from account
management and e-commerce sites, to community forums and character
profiles for multiple global regions, extending, supporting, and
enhancing the epic game experience and polish Blizzard is known for.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or related field, or equivalent training, and professional experience
- A minimum of 6 years’ industry experience building web applications
- Expert programming skills, including experience with Java, and application development for the web
- Expert analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging skills
- Expert knowledge of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and design patterns
- Strong knowledge of enterprise architectures, and patterns
- Experience in designing and building scalable, reliable, maintainable, testable, secure architectures for mission-critical applications
- Comfortable with Linux / UNIX, Apache, and Tomcat
- Thorough understanding of web-related technologies (e.g. HTML / XHTML, HTTP, SOAP, REST, TCP / IP, DNS, Message Queuing)
- Experience with data modeling in one or more modern relational databases and SQL
- Experience working in a team environment on multiple simultaneous projects
Pluses
- Experience working on Blizzard Entertainment community fan-sites
- Experience working with non-SQL datastores
- Experience in multiple different languages, web frameworks, containers, and datastores
- Experience mentoring junior developers
Required Application Materials
- Resume
- Cover Letter which should include:
- Why you are interested in working at Blizzard
- What games you are currently playing
**Only submittals with Cover Letters will be considered.
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and its affiliated companies is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
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