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November 10, 2006
LA-based PortBlue Needs BD Director and Java Dude
PortBlue develops and hosts expert systems for business and government applications, primarily in the healthcare, national and homeland security and law enforcement sectors. Why would you work at PortBlue you, ask? Their chief selling point for tech is:
"Technology: We use the latest techniques, tools, and frameworks: J2SE 5, Oracle 10g, Spring, Hibernate, AJAX, XSLT, ANTLR. Rather than dealing with a large legacy code base, you will be working on a heavily refactored, well-tested system that allows for rapid development of new features."
HQ Near Down-town LA
To apply, email jobs.tech@portblue.com
Software Engineer (Java)
at PortBlue
Los Angeles, CA 90066
PortBlue's tool for rapid development of sophisticated web applications is unique. Our software developers and product designers enjoy solving interesting, complex problems, such as multidimensional data manipulation and weaving programming concepts into a tool designed for non-programmers. We are looking for the brightest talent who are motivated to learn and contribute to building a pioneering company.
WHY JOIN PORTBLUE?
• Technology: We use the latest techniques, tools, and frameworks: J2SE 5, Oracle 10g, Spring, Hibernate, AJAX, XSLT, ANTLR. Rather than dealing with a large legacy code base, you will be working on a heavily refactored, well-tested system that allows for rapid development of new features.
• People: You will be working with a top notch group focused on producing a quality application, and on (technical) growth. Each member of the team is expected to find and advocate new technologies, processes, and patterns which would improve our application or our ability to deliver it quickly and reliably.
• Environment: PortBlue is dedicated to creating a learning environment, with weekly technical talks and explorations of important articles, books and software engineering methodologies.
• Relevance: The functionality you create will see immediate, critical use. Decision Support Systems built on the PortBlue platform include a system that hospitals employ to respond to disasters, and a variety of analytic applications handling tasks as diverse as creating a 5 Year Business Plan for surgical centers or training peace officers.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
You should have strong analytical and problem solving skills and have a hands-on, "get it done" attitude. You should understand software development lifecycle models, but be flexible enough to deal with the inevitable quick course changes experienced by a small, young organization.
You should have superior skills in one or more of the following areas:
• Object-oriented design and development
• J2EE technologies and industry-standard open source frameworks (Hibernate, Spring)
• Struts, or a similar control/view framework
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• 2+ years of development experience of Web-based J2EE applications
• 2+ years of work with object-oriented languages and designs
• 2+ years using XML and its associated Java toolsets
• 2+ years developing RDBMS-backed applications
• Some familiarity with open source tools (JUnit, Ant)
• Some familiarity with common open source frameworks (Struts, Hibernate, Spring)
• Some familiarity with JavaScript
• Some familiarity with shell scripting languages (sh, Perl, etc.)
• Some familiarity with XHTML and CSS based web development
INTERESTED?
Please send a current resume and brief answers to the 3 questions below to jobs.tech@portblue.com.
1. What do you consider your primary strengths and weaknesses as a software developer? Which of those strengths would you most like to see in your coworkers?
2. What is the most complicated software system with which you have been involved? Discuss the aspects of the system function or implementation that made it sophisticated and which aspects made it difficult to develop or maintain. With the benefit of hindsight, which design or development decisions would you change in order to reduce these difficulties?
3. What aspects of PortBlue (the company, the product, etc.) do you find compelling?
Posted by Paul at November 10, 2006 09:43 PM
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