Careers
Careers
We are a company composed of talented and innovative professionals who have come together to create revolutionary ticketing technologies. We maintain a positive and spirited work environment in an open office with few doors, low walls, and unlimited energy! Here at Zigabid, each member of our team is vital to our success. We are revolutionizing the ticket industry, which requires people who can offer a fresh outlook on every project and help to propagate our growth and success. If you consider yourself a go-getter, enthusiastic, and possessing an entrepreneurial spirit, take a look at our job openings below and send us your resume!
Current Openings
Grails / Java Engineer
05.12.08
Initial Criteria:
We are looking for LOCAL candidates with current availability only. Please only apply if you are within commuting distance of La Canada, CA.
What We're Looking For:
We are seeking a talented, experienced and passionate senior application developer to work with our engineering team. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of industry experience in a role as a Web Developer. Our team is a mixture of in-house and remote staff. Excellent verbal and written communication are paramount. We expect effective communication, a positive attitude, and an inspiring strong work ethic.
Required Skills:
- A commanding understanding of Grails & Groovy
- An extensive knowledge of the Java language including Java 5 EE, J2EE, J2SE.
- Experience with JSP/Servlets, JSTL, JSP, Tag Libraries, Groovy and Velocity.
- Strong knowledge of OOP programming and design patterns.
- Experience with SQL Server 2005 with strong SQL database design and programming skills.
- Experience optimizing database queries for performance.
- Strong knowledge of front-end UI technologies including: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript with a great attention to pixel-perfect detail.
- Extensive working experience with common AJAX frameworks/toolkits as well as developing custom lightweight AJAX libraries with an emphasis on JSON.
- Experience developing SOAP, XML-RPC, and REST web services.
- Proficiency working with Java IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA preferred)
- Advanced knowledge of cross-platform web browser compatibility and working knowledge of specific browser nuances.
- Experience developing and supporting a large scale, high volume transactional systems in a distributed and high availability environment.
- Solid understanding of version control (Subversion), issue tracking, release management, and automated build tools.
- Knowledge of Agile development methodologies
- Ability to work with short development/release cycles.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, must be detail oriented with the ability to develop and understand documenting requirements, physical data models, wireframes and UML diagrams.
- Intricate understanding of caching techniques and web/application server management.
- Highly self-motivated, leadership experience, ability to take ownership.
Desired Skills:
- BS or MS degree in computer science or related field is preferred.
- Familiarity with .NET/C#
- Familiarity with Oracle.
- Experience with Data Mining and Predictive Modeling.
- Experience developing eCommerce systems.
- Understanding of Enterprise Application Servers, Web Servers, Reverse Proxy Servers.
- Understanding of HTTP protocols.
We are seeking an immediate hire for this position.
To apply please email your resume (in pdf format) to hr@zigabid.com with a subject line of "HR Grails/Java Developer." Candidate must be willing to submit snippets of java code, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript to showcase an understanding of these technologies.
