Our dynamic, high energy company is currently seeking a programmer that can contribute to the design and development of our cutting-edge web-based services. To excel in this position you must be passionate about what you do, love to learn and grow and must have a positive attitude and a willingness to learn about both our industry and customer’s requirements.
You must be comfortable working independently as well as part of a collaborative team environment. You are comfortable with both traditional client-server architectures and modern service-oriented architectures. You are an adept problem solver and thrive in a fast paced entrepreneurial environment. You enjoy working with large data sets and finding ways of extracting useful data. Building web-based applications is second nature to you, but you have also built desktop and server-side applications. You love technology, especially using technology to solve system integration and customer problems.
You’ll be working out of AbeBooks corporate head office located on the Gorge Waterway in beautiful downtown Victoria.
Job Description:
This position’s main duties will include but not be limited to:
• As part of the FillZ development team, you’ll be responsible for technical support, bug tracking and escalations, scripting and other customization work for customers, as well as taking on development and infrastructure projects as we work to add to our service offering, enter into new markets and scale our business for continued growth.
• You will build knowledge & become a subject matter expert on FillZ services
Must Have’s:
• Relevant university degree and/or 2+ years work experience in software engineering
• Programming Languages: Perl, HTML, Javascript
• Advanced knowledge of SQL
• Strong understanding of test-driven and test-first development
• Experience with software architecture and design
• Strong customer focus
• Superior organizational skills, attention to detail, & ability to prioritize
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, results driven atmosphere
Nice to Have’s:
• Programming Languages: Java, Perl web application (mod_perl)
• Experience supporting customers in a direct support or a sales engineering role –customer centric
• Working knowledge of highly available, highly scalable enterprise architectures (including web services, and service-oriented architectures)
• Experience using Agile development methodologies such as XP
• MySQL administration and replication
• Linux system administration (FillZ uses Centos which is a RedHat Enterprise derivative)
• Backup, Recovery and Monitoring (FillZ currently uses Nagios)
• Additional languages: German and/or French are also nice to have
Please direct all resumes to shaun@fillz.com or fax to Attention: Human Resources, 250- 475-6014.
Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. We appreciate your interest in AbeBooks and FillZ!
About FillZ: Fillz.com is a recent addition to the AbeBooks family of companies & provides innovative inventory & order management solutions for online sellers. We’ve been in business since 2004 & are a rapidly growing division within the AbeBooks group of companies.
About AbeBooks: At AbeBooks.com, our mission is to help people find & buy any book from any bookseller anywhere. We are the world’s largest online marketplace for books with more than 110 million new, used, rare, & out-of-print books listed for sale by more than 13,500 independent booksellers in 53 countries.
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