Blizzard Entertainment: Senior Software Engineer, Web

Location: Irvine, CA
URL: jobs.blizzard.com

Blizzard Entertainment seeks a talented and enthusiastic senior web software engineer to join our team in Irvine, California. The battle.net team develops customer facing web sites, ranging from account management, and e-commerce sites, to community forums and character profiles for multiple regions around the globe. The senior software engineer is responsible for creating new, and improving existing applications in a high-load, high-availability environment, as well as helping to drive architecture and best practices across the team. The senior software engineer is expected to be a strong individual contributor in addition to effectively working with the team to drive project success.

 

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or related field, or equivalent training, and professional experience
• A minimum of 6 years’ industry experience building web applications
• Expert programming skills, including experience with Java, and application development for the web
• Expert analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging skills
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architectures, and patterns
• Experience in designing and building scalable, reliable, maintainable, testable architectures for mission-critical applications
• Comfortable with Linux / UNIX, Apache, and Tomcat
• Thorough understanding of web-related technologies (e.g. HTML / XHTML, HTTP, SOAP, REST, TCP/IP, DNS)
• Experience working with modern relational databases and SQL
• Experience working in a team environment on multiple simultaneous projects
• Passion for the web and video games

Pluses

• Experience working on Blizzard Entertainment community fan-sites
• Experience working with non-SQL datastores
• Experience in multiple different languages, web frameworks, and containers
• Experience mentoring junior developers

To apply: http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/posting.html?id=11000DD