What’s exciting about Elastic Path?

Ecommerce is a dynamic industry that continues to grow and evolve. Elastic Path Software provides an enterprise ecommerce platform for the easiest and most cost-effective way to deliver custom ecommerce solutions to our enterprise customers. The Java-based platform is extended with full access to source code for easy integration with existing systems. IT teams have unlimited flexibility and control to develop innovations for business users with a faster time to market. Major global brands such as Sony Ericsson, Time, Inc., and TELUS rely on Elastic Path.

At Elastic Path we work with some of the latest and greatest technologies: Java/J2EE, Spring, MVC, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AJAX, Velocity, Eclipse RCP, ANT/Maven, JPA, Tomcat, Weblogic, Websphere, Oracle, MySQL, etc. As part of the team you will play a key role in our agile development process and will have the opportunity to work with smart people who love debating, challenging the status quo, and solving complex customer requirements.

What can you expect in the Senior Java Developer’s position?

You will be involved in designing, developing and delivering new features and enhancements to the Elastic Path enterprise ecommerce product line. You will participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle including planning, technical design, construction, peer reviews, documentation, testing and deployment. You will be making heavy use of the latest & greatest technologies such as, J2EE, Spring and Web Services, so a craving for learning new things is a must.

In contrast to more traditional software shops, we follow an Agile approach to software development including: short iterations, lots of face-to-face communication, our beloved wiki, friendly high-trust environment, continuous integration and automation, weekly peer reviews, buddying developers with QA engineers, keeping processes as simple as possible, frequent retrospectives, we could go on and on.

Once you join our team, you will be accountable for achieving realistic yet challenging goals:
1. Develop, customize and implement bug-free ecommerce software that exceeds our customers’ requirements
2. Meet project deadlines by understanding and analyzing requirements, designing, developing and testing solutions
3. Contribute to the team and ensure mutual success by providing guidance for development, testing and troubleshooting
4. Show off your time management skills by prioritizing multiple requests from multiple projects
5. Provide status reports and escalate issues as appropriate to the relevant project stakeholders
6. Determine optimal solution designs based on the assessment of costs, risks, complexity and benefits
7. Solve complex problems by leading analysis and development of technical solutions; involve and guide other team members in problem solving activities
8. Successfully deploy our ecommerce platform in a variety of production environments that include Weblogic, Apache Tomcat, Oracle, etc.

Working at Elastic Path can provide you with an opportunity to see some great parts of the world while you’re providing brilliant support to our customers. Our Senior Java Developers can travel 25% to 50% and we want to be sure you more than comfortable with that, heck, we bet it even excites you…

What kind of background is required to thrive in this position?

• 5 or more years of software development experience in J2EE and Agile environment
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related
• Experience with Java script, HTML, CSS and AJAX
• Proficient in Java /J2EE web application development (JSP, Servlets, Spring, etc.)
• Experience with:
o building large-scale software applications in a team environment
o at least one of the following databases: Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, and/or MySQL
o at least one of the following Java application server; Tomcat, BEA Weblogic, IBM WebSphere, MVC, and/or JBoss
o test driven development
o at least one version control system
o Eclipse RCP / SWT (or Java Swing, AWT)
o design patterns
• Excellent communications skills and experience interfacing and communicating directly with clients

You may have the opportunity to work with the following technologies:

• Velocity
• EJB or another Object/Relational mapping framework
• Ant / Maven
• Web Services development
• Experience with XML transformation
• Implementation of ecommerce applications
• Experience integrating ERP systems such as accounting, inventory, supply chain management and other business applications

Bragging rights

Founded in 2000, Elastic Path is privately held and has grown organically with recent exponential growth; we’ve doubled revenue every year for the past three consecutive years. Today Elastic Path employs more than 140 team members between our Vancouver, Canada headquarters and UK office.

We’re also pleased to announce some recent accolades and awards, including a spot on Red Herring’s 100 List, a prestigious list that honors the year's most promising private technology ventures in North America. We also ranked #25 in PROFIT magazine's Ranking of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies and to top it off, British Columbia Technology Industry Association (BCTIA) recently awarded us with the “Emerging Company of the Year” award.

We also have some neat benefits to offer you, but we won’t bore you with those right now. If you’re curious, check out the benefits section on our career site: http://www.elasticpat...

Join our team

Interested? Awesome, let’s talk. Send us your resume and we’ll contact you if it looks like we might just have an amazing career opportunity that’s right up your alley. Be sure to highlight your bragging rights and apply today:

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To all recruitment agencies: At this time Elastic Path will not be accepting agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes as they will not be considered. Elastic Path is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.