Tuesday, June 03, 2008

InfoNow - Application Server Engineer

[rmiug-jobs] Digest Number 4559

Application Server Engineer- Denver
Posted by: "galemariecollins" galemariecollins@comcast.net galemariecollins
Date: Tue Jun 3, 2008 10:37 am ((PDT))

InfoNow Corporation
Overview of Contractor Role

Role: Application Server Multi-Node Engineer
Department: Engineering

Supervisor: VP of Engineering

Company Information
InfoNow is an innovative provider of SaaS-based channel data
management solutions that collect, process and enrich channel sales
and inventory data for companies selling through channel partner
networks. InfoNow's solutions help our clients gain timely and
actionable insight on channel sales, partner performance and
visibility to end customers.

We are a well-funded, Denver-based, mid-stage start-up with backing
by Sequel Partners and Sevin Rosen Funds. InfoNow is seeking
motivated professionals that thrive in a start-up environment and are
looking to play a key role in shaping the company's future.

For more information, visit www.infonow.com.

Expected Contributions to the Role
The position has responsibility to provide the development team with
expertise in the design and implementation of application server
multi-node support into the core platform. Responsibilities also
include training of other members of the development team through
hands-on tutorial and the creation of supporting documentation.

Major Areas of Accountability that Support Contributions
• Ability to work in a streamlined, dynamic, fast-paced
environment.
• Be self-motivated, positively-focused, collaborative and
highly organized.
 Demonstrate leadership in helping to establish a plan for
development and rollout of application server multi-node support.
 Create documentation of the platform integration, including
representative usage examples.
 Perform hands-on training of the multi-node support to other
members of the development team.
 Ability to work in an Agile product development process,
attending daily stand-ups, sprint review/kick-off meetings and
project reviews.
 Communicate status clearly to manager and team.
• Respect for the Quality Assurance process and ability to work
cooperatively with the test team.

Education/Training and experience

• In-depth knowledge of application server multi-node support
implementation.
• Experience in 2-3 start-to-finish multi-node support
initiatives.
• Experience in documenting at least 1 said initiative.
• Minimum 6 years working in application server business
process development.
• Experience with Tomcat, Glassfish, JBoss and/or WebLogic.
• Previous focus in a product environment (non-IT application
focus).
• Ability to accurately estimate project durations and meet
schedules.
• Solid understanding of OO principles and software development
processes.
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field.

Required Skills and Technologies
• Java, Tomcat/Glassfish/JBoss/WebLogic, ant/Maven,
JUnit/TestNG, service-oriented architecture

Desired Skills and Technologies
• Spring framework, iterative/Agile development processes,
software-as-a-service


gcollins@infonow.com