Web Application Engineer

PLEASE NOTE: THIS POSITION IS LOCATED IN NATICK, MA. RELOCATION TO NATICK, MA WILL BE PROVIDED TO THE IDEAL CANDIDATE.

As a Web Application Engineer you will utilize your web development experience to make improvements to applications in eSupport and other areas of our web site.You will be responsible for working with Business areas and Usability to gather requirements and create functional specifications. In addition, you will be responsible for making feature enhancements and bug fixes in our applications built in both Ruby on Rails and Java. You will work closely with our Quality Assurance group toensure test cases and plans are appropriately developed.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement changes to our eSupport web applications.
  
• Work with business areas to develop and document requirements and functional specifications.
  
• Create technical specifications and work with Architecture to review those specifications.
  
• Collaborate with Usability and designers to develop workflows and page designs.
  
• Work with quality analysts to ensure test cases and plans are appropriately developed and adhered to.
  
• Develop flexible integration with back office applications insuring SLAs are met.
  
• Work with infrastructure team to insure our applications support high performance and availability

 Requirements

Qualifications Required / Preferred

• BS degree plus five (5) years of commercial software engineering experience, or MS degree in Computer Science.
  
• 5+ years experience developing MVC web applications in Ruby on Rails or Java/Struts
  
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML/XSL/XSLT or AJAX
  
• Experience with SQL and database concepts
  
• Knowledge of Software Development Methodologies
  
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
  
• Experience gathering and writing Requirements and Functional Specifications

Pluses:

• Experience with Search Engine implementation and support
  
• Experience with MATLAB
  
• Experience with Linux and Apache
  
• Experience with jQuery, JSON, SOAP
  
• Experience with Agile development methodologies

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Country: USA, State: Dist of Columbia, City: Washington, Company: The Mathworks Inc.