Software Developer PowerReviews

Ready for a change in 2012?
PowerReviews is the leading provider of social commerce software-as-a-service solutions to global retailers and brands. We are an innovative social commerce company committed to making end-to-end social solutions that are blazing a new trail for companies to market, sell, design and innovate their products. The company's unique structured data approach to collecting, organizing, and analyzing user-generated content significantly boosts product sales and customer engagement.
We've got the Power and so should you!

• PowerReviews is live on over 5,500 websites - across 13 languages in 25 countries - including Staples, Drugstore.com, Room & Board, ESPN, Quicksilver, and Jockey.
• Customer Reviews Solution Leader in the Internet Retailer Top 500 survey, AlwaysOn Top 100 SaaS award winner, JMP Hot 100 award winner and one of 90 Facebook preferred vendors.
• Venture capital backing from Four Rivers Group, Woodside Fund, Menlo Ventures and Tenaya Capital.
• Two patents since 2009 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (U.S. Patent No. 7,930,363) relating to the method in which it delivers user-generated product reviews to websites globally.

Software Developer
As a member of our development team, you will design and develop software to achieve high performance, scale, and stability within the context of our infrastructure, business practices, market pressures, and planning cycles. You must be comfortable taking ownership of projects and processes, and be able to work closely with business owners to drive projects from conception to completion. You should have a good understanding of Java web development, database modeling and design and scalable web architectures. You will be involved in all phases of the software lifecycle, from specification to design, coding, and deployment
Responsibilities:

• Develop robust software and designs
• Take ownership of projects from start to finish, working with business owners to deliver requirements on target and schedule
• Be responsible for the quality of your code with thoughtful design, unit testing and automated functional testing
• Participate in and contribute to peer code reviews
• Proactively seek out and help us minimize pain points within our infrastructure and code base
• Stay abreast of the latest technologies and introduce us to new development techniques and tools that can improve our practices

Requirements:

• A bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Knowledge and experience with web application development
• Knowledge and experience with Java development
• Proficient in data structures and algorithms
• Writing beautiful code that is well documented and modular
• In-depth experience with modern Java frameworks and tools including MVC, Spring, Hibernate
• Knowledge of database design and performance optimization
• A genuine passion for the web, new technologies, and open source software
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

The 'nice-to-have stuff'...

• A knack for balancing architectural decisions with the realities of our technology base and business strategies
• An ability to find the right tools for the job, independent of technology religion
• Experience working with massive data sets
• Hadoop or similar frameworks

Location:	CA United States