Tools Developer (Java SIE112)

Shopzilla, formerly BizRate.com, is the world’s largest and fastest growing shopping search engine. Based in West Los Angeles, CA, Shopzilla is a part of the $7.6 billion E.W. Scripps Company.

 

Our tools Engineers will:

• Review, Design and Document implementation details from Architecture
• Participate in the implementation of product
• Participate in Testing design and Code Reviews
• Reverse engineer code
• Refactor and optimize complex systems
• Work with business to build rich user interfaces


Your qualifications include:

• 3+ years Software Development experience
• 3+ years Java development experience in a production environment
• 2+ years development experience including work on a team and taking direction from management, senior engineers and architects
• Experience developing using OOD/OOA/OOP in a large scale production environment
• Experience with CVS/SVN, Ant, Junit, Regular Expressions, Networking protocols, various file formats (e.g. XML, CSV, RDBMS (Preferred Sybase) and various Unix utilities (e.g. grep, awk, etc).
• Strong experience with Web Application development – HTML, Javascript required, Swing/AJAX a plus, ORM via Hibernate a plus as well
• Experience with data modeling and code organization for n-tier OOAD web applications
• Ability to setup, work within and deploy to a complex development environment without help from other developers
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated with a strong desire for constant improvement, knowledge expansion and commitment to quality
• B.S. in Computer Science or similar Analytic field of study

 

With an index of over 30 million products from more than 50,000 stores, gathered, organized and presented using all proprietary leading-edge technology, Shopzilla provides consumers the best way to find virtually anything for sale, anywhere, and at the best price. In addition to our flagship site (http://www.shopzilla.com), Shopzilla also powers shopping search for many of the Web's largest consumer sites including AOL, Lycos, Time Warner's RoadRunner, and many others.


At Shopzilla, our goal is to build the greatest shopping service ever conceived by mankind. To that end, we strive very hard to hire the smartest people. We’re an environment where great ideas shape our vision and true passion drives us to the best solutions to the most challenging problems at the intersection of shopping and search.

 

Shopzilla offers great benefits including medical, dental and vision plans, life insurance, 401(k) plan, flexible spending account, generous vacation benefits -- and we even provide FREE catered lunch every single day!

So, if you are the super-star type -- the one all look to as the smartest in your area of expertise -- love challenging yourself, and are searching for a place to work where people care, your ideas matter and you can make a real difference to helping millions of consumers, then we need to talk.

Shopzilla is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

To apply for this position, submit your application here