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Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V/D, and a member of E-Verify.

For the past 11 years, eCollege has been improving educational delivery methods by providing enterprise eLearning solutions with innovative technology and high-touch services. eCollege provides an on demand, or Software as a Service (SaaS) learning platform to growing colleges, universities and educational institutions across the globe. eCollege has been recognized as a proven leader in the use of educational technology. Our Course Management System (CMS) was ranked first in customer satisfaction in 2007 in independent research conducted by the IMS Global Learning Consortium.

According to leading IT researchers, more than 40% of all software will be deployed with on demand, or Software as a Service (SaaS) models by 2012. If you want to make a contribution to the future of learning and prefer an open-minded approach to work, join the eCollege team! As a Pearson company, eCollege offers competitive benefits in a challenging work environment, steeped in a supporting IT culture.

 

For interest in the below position, please reply back to this email AND apply online through our website, www.eCollege.com.

 

SUMMARY

The Software Engineer II provides software design and implementation solutions to difficult business and engineering problems.  The position demands someone who can analyze and recommend candidate solutions that meet functional as well as non-functional needs such as scalability, reliability, and extensibility. You will participate in a highly collaborative, team-oriented work environment. As a Software Engineer II you will have opportunities to push your skills to the limit, and help build great software.

 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

·         Performs product design activities which may require research and analysis

·         Designs and implements new software as well as maintains and enhances existing software

·         Writes software that integrates with both external and internal systems and adheres to data-exchange standards

·         Is able to decompose requirements into tasks and provide estimates for those tasks

·         Ensures that code adheres to strict standards for accessibility, security, object-oriented practices and performance

·         Participate in code reviews, and peer reviews as needed

·         Writes and conducts unit and integration tests

·         Effectively functions and communicates within a software development team consisting of developers, quality assurance, and project management members

·         Actively participates in requirements, architecture, and design meetings

·         Writes documentation for both internal and external consumers, covering design artifacts, code, and fixes

·         Other duties as assigned

 

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / MIS or equivalent experience required.  Minimum three (3) years experience in software engineering and design.

 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

·         Comprehensive knowledge required in the following areas:

o        Object Oriented Design and Programming

o        Java

·         Significant experience or knowledge required in the following areas:

o        J2EE

o        SQL Server / Oracle

o        Web Services (REST, SOAP)

o        Design Patterns, UML

o        Layered software architectures / SOA

o        API / Application Framework design

o        Object mapping, such as Hibernate, iBATIS

o        Unit Testing / Test Coverage

·         Basic experience or knowledge required in the following technologies:

o        High Transaction / High Availability Systems

o        Continuous Integration/Build Automation

o        Spring Framework

o        IoC / Dependency Injection

o        Multi-threaded / Thread-safe programming

o        Application Security

o        HTML, JavaScript & CSS

o        AJAX

o        Agile development methodologies

·         Desirable Experience:

o        Developing and designing infrastructure solutions that contribute to a massively scalable, high availability environments

o        Experience working with collaborative teams to bring working software to end-users quickly

·         Ability to independently learn and actively seek new skills and knowledge to advance the development capabilities of the organization and the individual.

·         Ability to dive into new technologies and languages across multiple platforms.

·         Ability to contribute in design meetings and participate in architecture and code reviews.

·         Strong communications skills and the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical people and work with a variety of internal and external development groups.

 

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Sun and/or Microsoft certification preferred

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with UML (IBM Test 486) preferred

Involvement in ACM or IEEE preferred

 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS and WORK ENVIRONMENT    The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

This position is located within an office environment and consists of sitting at a computer in a cubicle setting 95% of the time.

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Michelle Rasmussen
Human Resources 
Pearson eCollege

4900 S. Monaco St.  Ste 200

Denver, CO  80237
Office: 303.632.1072
Fax: 303.632.1717
micheller@...
http://www.ecollege.com

 

 

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