Senior Web Developer - CauseLoyalty

CauseLoyalty – Senior Web Developer

 

Prudential Building, Boston, MA

 

Are you a Web Developer with experience working on Consumer Websites?  Do you like the idea of working for a company that isn’t a non-profit, but works to help others?  Are you dedicated to working with the most cutting-edge technology?  If so, now is the time to learn more about CauseLoyalty!

 

http://www.causeloyalty.com/  

 

 

CauseLoyalty, is a loyalty marketing company for community-minded merchants and services providers. We offer a nontraditional fundraising platform for schools and nonprofit organizations, while simultaneously providing community-minded merchants and service providers a cause-based loyalty marketing program.

 

Our parent company, Rakuten, headquartered in Tokyo, is one of the world's largest and

most comprehensive Internet service companies, providing leading services in e-commerce,

portal & media, travel, financial services, and professional sports.  Internationally, Rakuten has

3,000 employees in 7 countries and yields over a billion dollars in annual revenue.  Rakuten has

one of the most recognized Internet brands in Japan and owns Japan’s newest professional

baseball's franchise, the Rakuten Eagles.

 

Senior Developer

 

Under the direction of our Director of Technology, our new Sr. Developer will be responsible for both new/migratory application system design and development in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java Servlets, JSP, and Java backend applications.

 

CauseLoyalty works with state of the art technology including a web-based client login interface, transaction processing systems, invoicing and payment systems, a corporate web site, ad serving and tracking, mass e-mail systems, as well as several backend and other OLTP systems. MySQL and Oracle are the current RDBMS used for these systems.

 

 

Required Skills and Experience:

·  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field. 

·  Experience with MySQL or Oracle, or other compatible SQL and PL/SQL.

·  Solid experience designing and programming a Ruby on Rails or Java web-based system either in an educational/research or business environment.

·  Experience or familiarity with Unix/Linux, Web Services, XML/XSL, SOAP, AJAX, Ruby on Rails, PHP, J2EE, EJB, Struts, JavaScript, HTML, CSS.

·  Strong verbal & written communication skills.  “Team Player” mentaility is a must.

·  Excellent problem-solving skills.

·  Ability to work in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment.

·  A Fascination with technology and a drive to succeed.

·  Familiarity with, and interest in, E-Commerce. 

·  Aptitude for standard project lifecycle practices including source code versioning control and maintenance.

·  Experience with open source projects. 

·  Leadership qualities and project management skills (successful candidates may be tasked with leading projects.)