Senior Full-Stack Development

HomeAdvisor is the nation's largest digital home services marketplace matching homeowners and pre-screened service professionals. We are one of the biggest internet success stories in Colorado, growing from our startup days to nearly half of a billion dollars in annual revenue - yet we're nimble enough to stay ahead in the fast-changing internet ecosystem. All of this makes HomeAdvisor a great place to work.

HomeAdvisor is looking for a Technical Lead with coding, architecture, leadership, and project management responsibilities to take a major role in our product evolution.

• Working with cross-functional business partners in Product Development, UX, Design, QA, and Marketing to understand the business need of a feature or project, and setting expectations for delivery of their desired features.
• Hands-on application design, architecture, and coding (both front-end and back-end)
• Leading project teams of Java, front-end, and database developers, including mentoring, project management, task assignment and follow through.
• Triaging problems on the fly including Level 2 application support
• Finding pragmatic solutions to whatever challenges lie in the way

• A smart, driven individual with a mix of passion for solid application architecture, hands-on coding, and team leadership/mentoring?
• A voice to help continually define best practices and standards with the development leadership team, and champion them to the team?
• An individual with the ability and desire to see the big picture and bend the lens to see what's around the corner?
• An economical mind with an intuition for understanding scope versus value and placing emphasis on the 80/20 rule?
• An architectural mind that values availability and scalability? We use distributed systems to make it all happen. We want people that think that is cool.
• 5+ years of overall software development experience within a Java EE development experience;
• Solid understanding of the full web technology stack, e.g. cookies, sessions, caching, security, etc.;
• Strong front-end skills, such as implementing responsive designs, JQuery/JavaScript, LESS, JSON, XML, JSTL;
• Experience developing processes to handle large volumes of operational data using Oracle, Coherence, and ElasticSearch;
• Experience with Spring/MVC, Struts 2, or other Front Controller Patterns;
• Disciplined approach to software engineering best practices, e.g. unit/functional testing with Junit, Selenium, Spock, Expect.js, Mocha.js, code reviews using tools such as Atlassian Crucible, and continuous integration/delivery practices.
• Knowledge of with SOA, microservices, and/or RESTful design patterns;
• Experience with team/technical leadership - the ability to coordinate people, build consensus, and take ownership for your solutions;
• The ability to help advance design, model solutions: think critically, and contribute in the give-and-take discussions;
• No fear of making a mistake (and admitting to it), but with a preference to do things right the first time and the forethought to build contingencies into the solution;
• Communication skills - if you're not comfortable talking to people at all levels in the organization, this isn’t the job for you.