IBM Lotus Connections Developer; Denver, CO
Posted by: "newsgatorjobs" jobs@newsgator.com
Date: Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:19 pm ((PST))
NewsGator Technologies is a pioneer in delivering social computing
products and services for businesses. The company's enterprise RSS,
social networking and widget platforms are used by more than 100 of the
world's largest companies and most recognized brands including Bank
of America, Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed
Martin, State Farm, SAP, Intel, CBS, CNN, USA Today, Discovery, National
Geographic and Biogen Idec. The company also offers an award-winning
line of RSS aggregators for the Web, desktops, mobile devices and e-mail
clients. More than a million people rely on NewsGator to deliver timely,
relevant content every day.
NewsGator is a high growth company with revenue tripling annually since
its founding. Revenue is generated from a wide range of RSS aggregation
products and social media tools, including:
* NewsGator Enterprise Server
organizations take news and updates from the Web, the blogosphere,
premium content providers and internal applications and automatically
deliver it to places where their employees can easily find and use it
- portals, mobile devices, their desktops or Microsoft Outlook
and Lotus Notes. We also offer Enterprise RSS via a hosted service
integrated Enterprise 2.0 suite
* Syndication Services
provide a widget framework for newspapers, magazines and other online
content providers to increase page views and improve audience engagement
through the use of interesting text, audio and video content.
NewsGator products have won numerous awards from a wide variety of
prestigious magazines and Web sites. NewsGator Enterprise Server
named one of InfoWorld's 2007 Technologies of the Year and was a
Trend-Setting Product of 2006 by KM World. FeedDemon
received significant accolades including a 2006 Editor's Choice
award from CNET, while NetNewsWire
received back to back Eddy awards from MacWorld magazine in 2004 and
2005. The company has been named to the eContent 100 list "Companies
that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry" for four straight
years. In addition, NewsGator has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the
Top 100 Private Company award winners.
IBM Lotus Connections Developer
Develop and debug NewsGator applications for IBM Lotus Connections.
Responsible for overall system architecture/design for capabilities
implemented in Connections, coding of those capabilities, implementing
Connections for testing and evaluating those capabilities, and giving
guidance to the QA team on testing in Connections. May also perform the
same duties for IBM Lotus Quickr development.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
* Research, design, and develop new features for company products.
* Design technical specifications for assigned features and
architectural improvements. Candidate must be proficient in writing use
cases and other supplemental requirement specifications as required.
* Review and hand-off technical designs to test engineers in an
effort to ensure quality delivery of product.
* Participate in code design and code reviews with appropriate team
members as necessary.
* Develop and deliver to aggressive product release schedules working
as a cooperative team member in an agile development environment.
Qualifications
* BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline or
equivalent experience.
* Strong software engineering and problem solving skills.
* 5-7 solid years of professional experience developing web-based
applications.
* Experience developing JavaScript, DHTML, and AJAX or JSON based
applications.
* Experience developing to JSR-000168 Portlet Specification
* Experience developing to IWidget (Eclipse Platform API
Specification)
* Understanding of IBM Lotus Connections architecture and
implementation
* Experience implementing IBM Lotus Connections in a customer
environment is highly desired
* Ability to work effectively with DB2 is highly desired.
* Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into
technical designs.
* Demonstrated ability to identify, prioritize, and execute tasks to
meet critical project deadlines.
* Ability to take ownership of extensive development tasks.
* Demonstrated ability to work in a team-oriented environment and get
along well with others.
Application Instructions
For proper consideration, the following is to be included with your
submission:
* Cover Letter, addressing each of the aforementioned
qualifications and noting where you saw our posting
* Resume
* Availability
* As well, you must include the position title in the subject
line of the email when responding to the position.
* Send submissions to jobs@newsgator.com
