Duties include:

• Working directly with customers to gather insight and requirements, as well as working with them for troubleshooting and solving problems;
• Organizing development, iteration, and unit testing tasks of a development team;
• Developing applications based upon customer requirements and industry standards;
• Providing assistance to the support organization as needed;
• Participating in design and code reviews and writing required design and analysis documents for the applications;
• Writing application architecture specifications and assisting with architecture building;
• Creating technical documentation for other system administrators and support personnel to aid in installation and administration;
• Interacting with technical writers to document, verify and validate product features and functionality;
• Writing and maintaining automated unit tests;
• Interacting with test/quality assurance engineers to define test plans, identify and reproduce defects and provide fixes as needed;
• Working in an agile development environment leading a development team of very bright people

The successful candidate must have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related area;
• 5+ years experience developing business applications in a full software development life cycle environment using Java and J2EE technologies such as JDBC, EJB’s, Hibernate, and JUnit;
• Experience with workforce optimization software for retailers (labor scheduling, time and attendance) is a big plus;
• Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, DB2, Postgres or other open source databases;
• Experience with Tomcat, Jboss, and/or Websphere application servers;
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills;
• Proactive attitude, ability to work independently and a desire to continuously learn new skills and technology.
• Ability to organize and lead a development team through the development, QA, documentation, and release process for software.