Sr. Java Developer Job in Salt Lake City, Utah US
Kforce seeks an experienced Java/J2EE Engineer with a backend development focus and excellent multi-tier development skills for products incorporating the company's patent-pending text extraction technology. This position will be based in Salt Lake City, Utah. In particular we are continuing development of our next generation application for analyzing and searching free-form or unstructured text.
Main Duties:
- Design, build, test, and maintain Java-based components
- Optimize current database schema and architect new data repository to handle growing need for improved performance and scalability
- Develop reliable project timelines, and then deliver against them
- Contribute to reviews, testing, documentation, and QA to ensure top-quality software
This client delivers Text Analytics software solutions that rapidly and accurately transform unstructured data into valuable, actionable information. It enables government and Global 2000 customers to transform unstructured text, integrate it with structured data, and leverage it within an enterprise data warehouse for analytics and decision support. The company's patented software solutions provide the widest breadth of text extraction technologies available, and speed detection and response to critical events and issues related to intelligence analysis, money laundering, fraud detection, insurance claims processing, voice of the customer, and service and warranty analysis.
Requirements:
- Experience and demonstrated proficiency in Java 6
- Experience monitoring, administrating, and implementing performance tuning on database systems as well as experience in database performance optimization, developing/changing databases indices, redesigning database structure and reloading data into a database
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, especially for technical information
- Strong analytical and design skills
- A Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field is required.
- Optional knowledge in, or willingness to learn the following:
- Vertica or similar column oriented databases
- HTML5 or similar Rich Internet Application Framework
- Linux, and/or Mac OS X operating systems