Java Developer

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* Communicate with product and business teams to gather and analyze business requirement and translate into technical design and prepare functional/technical specification documents. * Research and identify new software technologies that can be leveraged to improve application performance and development efficiency, reduce cost and maintain quality. * Develop web scale, high resilience web application for news distribution and hosted content. * Work together with Quality Assurance team to prepare test plans/test cases and define test execution methodology and perform tests. Identify and fix any defects * Participate in project planning sessions with team members to analyze development requirements, provide design options, and provide work breakdown and estimates of work. * Estimating work scope and time and meeting deadlines * Reviewing peers work and providing feedback.

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent required. * 5+ years’ development experience. * Experience in an application development role in low-latency news collecting, processing and distribution systems design and development * Knowledge and experience with agile software development process * Experience in large-scale web application/web services design and development * Experience in Java, Python, SQL/MySQL, XML, JSON, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Web service, and WSDL * Experience in Linux platform and related tools including shell, Makefile. * Experience in recommendation algorithm is a plus. * Experience in search knowledge is a plus, like Elastic Search, etc. * Experience in Clojure/Clojure Script is a plus. * Full stack engineering experience will be a huge plus.