Associate Software Engineer

About the position

Within the engineering team, an Associate Software Engineer will be participating in various software development projects, working on design specifications and project schedule, playing an important role in the software development process and being responsible for the completion of the project, including monitoring the project through testing and release.

Responsibilities

• Understanding and analyzing our e-commerce business requirements and turning them into engineering designs.
• Developing software to implement our wide-range of business functionalities on the web, used by IronPlanet internal people as well as end users.
• Working with third party systems from our industry partners or customers, to integrate them with our web system and facilitate real-time data exchanges.
• Helping define testing specifications and facilitating the project testing and performance tuning.
• Conduct thorough market research and analysis to identify emerging trends, competitive landscape, and customer needs.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the IT organization.
• Foster strong cross-functional collaboration with marketing, operations, finance, and other key departments.
• Flexible and willing to perform other tasks as assigned.

Requirements

• 2 years of industry experience in software development.
• On the forefront of the J2EE technology, with thorough knowledge Java application servers, EJB, Hibernate, and JSTL.
• Extensive working experience on Oracle database systems, with schema design, data model normalization, and query optimization.
• Hands-on experience in setting up and maintaining personal development database systems.
• Very familiar with web technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, and XML.
• Demonstrated to be a quick learner, willing to meet the challenge, take on new technology, and deploy it onto our software system whenever necessary.
• Good communication skills, with quick and precise comprehension of ever-changing e-commerce business processes.