Application Engineer

AOL Lifestream is a web-based application that enables users to keep track of all their comments on social networking sites. Integrated with AIM Express, AIM 7, and AIM for Mac, users can publish their statuses, reply to comments on networking sites from their Lifestream tab, and more. AOL Lifestream is a product of AOL.

At MapQuest, we believe that maximizing efficiency, increasing quality and reducing time to market through automation, agile methodologies and enterprise collaboration are all critical components of our software engineering organization. We are building an ecosystem of shared enterprise grade tools, infrastructure, best practices and processes to enable the consistency of our development organization to deliver high quality and on-time technology solutions. We are looking for a new member to join our B2B team to help us push our systems, processes & culture to the next level.

* Serve as a member of a high performing product development team. * A strong desire to learn new things and continually improve yourself and your team with a “can do anything” mentality * You live to experiment, test, fail fast, and learn as you go. * Working with the B2B organization to implement a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery within our extremely complex, existing ecosystem. * Becoming an automation champion to help push the required culture, technology and process changes throughout the organization

**Core Skills:** * 4 year college degree in Computer Science / Information Technology, Bachelor of Science preferred and 2 years of professional work experience. * Problem solving skills, willingness to learn new technologies * Scripting ability (Bash / Shell, Python, PERL, Ruby, etc.) * Sound knowledge on Linux and cloud architecture (AWS) * Continuous Integration Automation (Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, Docker, Vagrant) * Good understanding on networking, security and load-balancers (F5, HAProxy, webproxy) * Experience on relational and NoSQL Databases. * Experience on Middleware (Tomcat, Weblogic, Apache etc) and Message Queues * Appreciation of commercial and open source tools and appropriate usage models * Delivery focused with the ability to interact directly with internal customers as a service provider * An appreciation of the nAt MapQuest, we believe that maximizing efficiency, increasing quality and reducing time to market through automation, agile methodologies and enterprise collaboration are all critical components of our software engineering organization. We are building an ecosystem of shared enterprise grade tools, infrastructure, best practices and processes to enable the consistency of our development organization to deliver high quality and on-time technology solutions. We are looking for a new member to join our B2B team to help us push our systems, processes & culture to the next level. * Need to consider aspects beyond the technical delivery of the service such as design/architecture, expectation management, relationship building and the support wrapper. * An individual who seeks to gain an understanding of an entire system, who understands that the system can be constantly improved by identifying the bottlenecks and improving the feedback loops so that the correct actions can be taken. **Nice to have Skills:** * Object oriented, pattern based enterprise development experience * Cloud/Remote computing services (AWS, VMWare, Rackspace, Azure) * Monitoring (Zabbix, Logstash, ELK Stack) * Database (Postgress, Elastic Search, Mongo, Cassandra) * Apache Spark * SCM (Git, GitHub, Stash) * Platforms, languages and runtimes (Java, Scala, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, node.js) * Agile tools (ie: Jira, Wiki’s, Confluence Suite)