Responsys Careers



Software Engineer (Platform and services)


We operate as an ASP hosting our own multi-tenant enterprise software in a very large n-tier deployment with multiple geographically distributed data centers. We are J2EE based and leverage many open source technologies in our product development. Our success requires us to process upwards of 100 million transactions a day. We are seeking an individual who can handle the challenges and opportunities of developing software that operates at this scale while expanding our functionality to even further the lead Responsys has over the competition.

Responsys has an opening for a highly technical Senior Software Engineer. The position is based in San Bruno.


Responsibilities:
This senior role will be responsible for improving, defining, designing, and building major functions of the next generation of the Responsys platform. The platform is a complex distributed heterogeneous environment with high throughput, availability, data movement, and scalability requirements.

The individual must have large-system design experience, great modular design and hands-on Java programming skills, and understand and solve the issues of a high-throughput, highly-available, distributed environment. The individual must be proactive and a technical leader, produce high quality solutions, and be relied upon to get things done.

Requirements:
  • 7+ years of professional experience in the Java/J2EE/Linux/Unix space
  • Works well both in a team and individually
  • Strong design skills. Knows API design, modular design, UML, judicious use of patterns
  • Enjoys coding and coding well. Is highly adept and current in at least Java 1.5
  • Can solve multi-threaded, asynchronous, and distributed systems problems
  • Understands issues around fault tolerance and scale-out
  • Understands system management issues
  • Experience with a high-volume, highly-available, distributed application in a hosted environment

Preferences:
  • Experience using JMS in a high throughput production environment
  • Experience with Spring, Hibernate, or JBoss in a production environment
  • Experience with content management systems in a production environment
  • Experience with relational databases, data modeling, ORM framework and SQL/JDBC


Contact:
Brian Snodgrass
Sr. Recruiter