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Senior Software Engineer Xoom
XOOM Corporation is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer in an Agile dynamic development environment that requires collaboration, great communication skills and flexibility. Our employees are some of the brightest minds in the online money transfer space. Ideas are shared, vetted, developed, and tested in an environment that is challenging and interesting.Our platform provides financial transaction movement and management, fraud prevention, compliance verification, financial settlement, data security, and reporting services. Our system is designed to be scalable, flexible, secure and fault tolerant. We are directly connected to a variety of financial institutions, in dozens of markets worldwide. This role's challenges are complex and require highly skilled, talented engineers. We will put your ability to build, simplify and scale complex systems to the test
Qualifications:
- 5 or more years of previous experience in Java software engineering with an emphasis in high-availability enterprise applications
- MS or BS in computer science or related field or equivalent knowledge and experience
- Well-rounded engineer with experience in distributed systems (multiple, independent servers or services working together to attain a goal), relational data modeling, databases
- Excellent understanding of open source frameworks- when to use them, and when not to use them
- Advanced knowledge of Java, SQL, and object-oriented programming techniques
- Proven skill in analyzing technical issues and translating them into component designs
- A record of active involvement in a number of full product lifecycles (experience with Agile development techniques is a plus)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and must be able to work effectively in cross-functional teams
- Spring, Hibernate, iBatis, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, AJAX, MySQL experience is a plus
- Knowledge of financial systems a plus
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Build underlying services and systems to support hosted financial business applications
- Work with technologies that include Linux, Java, relational databases
- Help define and use generalized system services and components and the supporting data models
- Design and implement using a reusable component architecture
- Write automated tests to ensure proper functionality of implementation and allow for confident refactoring
- Help to create and enforce coding and process standards for application development
- Plan, schedule and execute assignments to milestones
- Fix bugs, implement enhancements and work with the customer support organization in the resolution of customer issues
- Interact and communicate effectively across the engineering organization, specifically with Product Management and QA during the design and implementation phases, and with documentation, training and customer support throughout
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring
- Assist in the hiring process
- Act with a sense of urgency to achieve critical milestones and resolve customer issues
Education:
MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent knowledge and experience.
| Location: | 301 Brannan Street 5th Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 United States |
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Xoom
Investors: Fidelity Ventures, NEA, Sequoia CapitalAll Jobs: at Xoom
| Web Site: | www.xoom.com |
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| Headquarters: | 301 Brannan Street 5th Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 United States |
| Industry: | Financial Services |
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