Senior Software Engineer – Web Applications (OAK) | Ask.com | Oakland, CA
Senior Software Engineer – Web Applications (OAK)
(Location: Oakland, CA)
Us
Ask.com is the #1 brand focused on answering questions. We answer the questions of over 227 million people worldwide across the Ask Networks. We have one of the highest-quality and most useful Q&A databases on the Web with more than 400 million Q&A pairs – growing by the millions each week. We are a new group of web developers who are looking to create product/tools for our initiatives that drive most of our company revenue and traffic acquisition. We are serious about creating and maintaining a great culture and are looking for great people to come join our team.
The Role
Ask.com is looking for a self-motivated, experienced software engineer who has a passion for both client and server-side development. The position requires interaction with the business to analyze and provide robust technical solutions to business problems. We are looking for someone who can work in a creative dynamic environment while prototyping and building new solutions.
You
As a team member in our product-driven environment, you will be expected to move quickly, collaborative effectively and solve challenging technical problems. You will work with team of designers and fellow engineers to build both the client web components (HTML, CSS, Javascript) and server-side code (Java, MVC). You should enjoy working across the software stack, be a master of design, analysis, object oriented programming and be keen for optimization, performance, scalability.
Your Task
Your Skills
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Us
Ask.com is the #1 brand focused on answering questions. We answer the questions of over 227 million people worldwide across the Ask Networks. We have one of the highest-quality and most useful Q&A databases on the Web with more than 400 million Q&A pairs – growing by the millions each week. We are a new group of web developers who are looking to create product/tools for our initiatives that drive most of our company revenue and traffic acquisition. We are serious about creating and maintaining a great culture and are looking for great people to come join our team.
The Role
Ask.com is looking for a self-motivated, experienced software engineer who has a passion for both client and server-side development. The position requires interaction with the business to analyze and provide robust technical solutions to business problems. We are looking for someone who can work in a creative dynamic environment while prototyping and building new solutions.
You
As a team member in our product-driven environment, you will be expected to move quickly, collaborative effectively and solve challenging technical problems. You will work with team of designers and fellow engineers to build both the client web components (HTML, CSS, Javascript) and server-side code (Java, MVC). You should enjoy working across the software stack, be a master of design, analysis, object oriented programming and be keen for optimization, performance, scalability.
Your Task
- Analyze and design solutions to meet business needs
- Design and develop cutting-edge products utilizing Java, XML, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, and CSS
- End-to-end development
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code
- Be responsible to write proper test cases and automate the software
- Keep up to date with new web technologies
Your Skills
- BA/BS in computer science, computer engineering or related technical field and 5+ years experience in job offered or computer-related occupation.
- Strong skills using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and AJAX – 5+ years experience
- Proficient in JavaScript frameworks like jQuery
- Strong OO design and coding skills in an Object Oriented Language – Java – 5+ years experience
- Familiarity with web frameworks such as Spring MVC along with templating using JSP/Velocity and XML, JSON data formats
- Cross-browser compatibility expertise
- Proficiency with data structures, algorithm analysis and design
- Experience with testing frameworks such as Junit, TestNG, Selenium
- Experience with SQL (MySQL) or non-SQL(Redis/MongoDB) databases – a plus
- Python, Shell Scripting – a plus
- Comfortable working in agile work environment
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills at the business and technical level
- Self-directed, independent and with strong work ethic, commitment and team spirit
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