eHire’s client, a 30 year veteran of the meetings & events business, has engaged eHire in a search for a Java Developer with strong knowledge of the traditional IBM stack. Our client is committed to perfecting the entire attendee experience, fostering satisfaction before, during and after an event. They accomplish this through pioneering technology for maximizing – and measuring – the value of these event outcomes.

Background and Scope
The selected individuals will develop, modify and maintain applications, applets, portlets, skins, templates, RSS feeds, web services and other components used within our client’s core event platform. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Working with the business team to fulfill their requests
• Working with the Quality Assurance and Site Operations teams to get our releases into production
• Stabilize our code / build / deployment
• Providing recommendations on tools to monitor and support all environments and implement as necessary
• Making process and systems improvement recommendations to assist the business in achieving its goals and objectives, leveraging best practices and professional experiences

Requirements

• Bachelor’ s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
• Exceptional communication skills
• 5-7 years of experience in core Java / J2EE Development
• Strong experience in the traditional IBM Stack
• WebSphere App Server
• DB2

• Extensive experience with RAD (Rational App Developer) and Eclipse based IDE
• Experience with EJB version 3.x, dependency injection (DI), annotations, etc.)
• RESTful architectures and best practices
• JAX-RS is a plus

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $110,000.00 /year

Required experience:

• java, j2ee, websphere app server, rad, db2, eclipse: 5 years