THE ENTERPRISE

Proship Entertainment is an international company founded in 1987 providing services to the entertainment industry. The company is an established leader in its field and is now implementing a dynamic expansion plan towards new markets and new products. All existing clients are US based corporations. Our mission is to be an unmatched customer experience, providing performance staffing and entertainment services for world-class venues, and career opportunities to outstanding individuals worldwide.  

THE JOB

The Software Developer is initially part of a two developers team with possible future expansion.  He participates in the creation of an application for internal use and for the development and testing of innovative human-resource pattern-matching algorithms. The project is in its inception phase, thus affording the candidate an opportunity to participate in all stages of the design process.  This project is being developed in a live environment.

THE CANDIDATE

The ideal candidate must be very enthusiastic about software development, willing to learn new technologies and possesses excellent analytical and problem solving skills.  The ability to work closely with others, as well as functioning independently is essential.  The Software Developer’s spoken and written English must be at a strong business level.  Key traits include excellent communication skills, flexibility, excellent work ethics and the ability to work in a changing environment.  Proficiency with databases and the Java programming language and platform is a must.  An inclination towards open-source technologies and philosophy is an asset.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Experience: Experience in enterprise application design with a background in object oriented software design

Languages: English – Fluent

Assets: Java EE / JSF, Facelets, JavaScript, Spring, AspectJ, Acegi, Hibernate, Groovy, PostgreSQL, Selenium, various Java-centric development tools (Maven, ant, Eclipse IDE), declarative programming, git SCM, Linux, bash/Perl/awk scripting, agile software engineering methodologies, test driven development (TDD), design patterns

THE FUNCTION

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Participation in a two month period of design and planning, establishing project conventions, formal requirement elicitation, setting milestones and technology stack integration.
• Implementation of design milestones.
• Responding to operational changes in the live environment.
• Participation in quality control.
• Migration of data from legacy systems.
• Maintaining project development log for funding accountability
  

CONDITIONS

Full time schedule

Starting before December 2008

Salary: $33,000 to $41,000, based on qualification

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