JAVA SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Peapod is an e-commerce grocery shopping/delivery service. We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Ahold and a partner with Ahold USA supermarket companies. As our business continues to grow, we presently are seeking a Java Software Engineer for our Corporate Office in Skokie, IL.

Peapod is a fast-paced environment that heavily embraces open source technologies in our business solutions. You'll be working as part of a small, efficient team that has a passion for the products and services we deliver. This position would be within the e-commerce team focused on the building and supporting applications/features across the various consumer web sites and applications that Peapod develops and supports.

Responsibilities include:

• Work with Web Product Manager to understand business and functional requirements for new features and enhancements, adjusting as needed based on technical feasibility.
• Work with Web Product Manager to provide level-of-effort estimates based on project scope and technical complexity and create technical specifications for new features or enhancements, as needed.
• Work with Web Product Manager to coordinate software launch with overall launch plan, as needed.
• Work with DBA to design new schemas and data access logic.
• Work with Business Systems Development Team to design interfaces between the web and other systems.
• Work with Content Developers to implement site creative prior to unit test phase.
• Support Content Developers by providing technical assistance, as needed.
• Support Customer Support and Web Center management in the investigation and identification of system issues and, when identified, design and implement a fix.
• Work with other IT groups in the installation and testing of new hardware and software, as needed.
• Initiate code reviews with manager.
• Adhere to design and software development standards. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of software development disciplines and best practices.
• Code and develop unit test plans, unit test new features and enhancements and ensure all code has been unit tested prior to QA code freeze, including interfaces with other systems.
• Review QA system and regression test plans, supporting the QA process by fixing identified deficiencies promptly and communicating regularly with the QA staff.
• Keep manager and Web Center management apprised of progress.
• Prioritize daily activities to accomplish assignments.
• Suggest technical approach to solve business issues when appropriate and, when not appropriate, raise issues to the next level.

Qualifications:

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related IT degree
• 2-3 years software development experience.
• Solid experience and fluency in Unix or Linux
• Solid knowledge of HTML, JSP, CSS and JavaScript/AJAX in creating interactive web applications
• Experience with a MVC framework (Struts, Spring).
• Able to configure/manage own Linux development environment (HTTP Server, Application Server)
• Solid experience with open source technologies and tools (Tomcat, Apache, Eclipse, Ant, Hibernate, Spring, MySQL, Subversion)
• Solid knowledge of SQL and database design
• Must be able to work a project front (presentation) to back (services, DAO) proficiently.
• Experience working on high availability, transactional applications
• Attention to details and quality
• Strong written verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical information to business users
• The ability and willingness to proactively interact creatively and achieve results in a dynamic environment
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Must have a passion for technology
• Must be able to work as part of a team and follow standards and best practices that have been established
• Self-motivated, result oriented, and able to successfully manage multiple priorities effectively and efficiently

Peapod offers a competitive starting salary, with excellent full-time benefits including health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401K with match, holidays, vacation/sick days, employee stock purchase plan, flexible spending account, direct deposit, credit union and short/long term disability.

If you are interested in the above opportunity, please e-mail your resume to: nkazar@peapod.com along with your salary expectations.


Peapod is an Equal Opportunity Employer.