Principal Software Engineer / Team Lead

Around the corner and around the globe, Tillster simplifies digital ordering, improves customer engagement and grows sales. For more than a decade, we’ve helped turn guests into regulars. Our award-winning technologies have transformed the casual dining and quick service restaurant industries – and made us the global leader in this space.

Tillster is looking to grow a Senior team of Principal Engineers/Team Leads to mentor and guide our engineering organization to new heights. A great opportunity exists for Principal Software Engineers who are hands-on coding gurus serving as team leads for our Enterprise Mobile/Web Ordering Systems group. You'll be engaged in the design and hands-on coding of our Highly Scalable, Highly Availability Enterprise Mobile Services/Applications. These Services/Applications are hosted on state-of-the-art Cloud Service providers in multiple geographies. We are looking for battle-tested Sr. Software Engineers who have dealt with Enterprise and Internet-level issues with regards to scalability, high availability, and performance tuning particularly for delivery of mobile applications.

• Become an invaluable member of one of our Agile teams and help deliver great products using Scrum methodology

• Help the team achieve success on assigned projects by handling a variety of software development tasks

• Write back-end code using Java and utilize best of breed open source technologies like Spring and Hibernate.

• Develop front-end code using CSS, HTML5 and JavaScript libraries like jQUery

• Embrace test driven development practices using JUnit, JMock and Selenium

• Build Java programs that execute in a high availability, high throughput batch environment

• Building and customizing product and collaborating with external business partners

• Speaking to technical staff at other companies to explain how to make our products work together

• Coach/mentor junior engineers and be a technical lead on the team

Required Skills & Experience

• 9+ years of overall Sr. Java Engineering experience and OO Design Practices with hands-on knowledge of Spring, Hibernate/MySQL, Web (Servlets/JSP), XML/SOAP, strong J2EE

• 2+ years of Mobile-Web Application Design, Development, Deployment and Tuning with hands-on knowledge of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Ext.js, Node. Js

• Strong C++ skills

• Command prompt Linux skills

• 3+ years of hands-on technical lead experience with excellent task/project estimation capabilities

• Experience with Cloud Hosted deployments and management (i.e. Amazon EC2 or Rackspace)

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience with Web/Mobile Payment Processing (either direct or via Integration)

• Web Service specific experience particularly with Axis, Jetty, Tomcat, Apache, CXF (or other Open Source Web Servers/ Containers)

• Must show a mastery of Tomcat Configuration for... High Availability / Clustering Load Balancing Authentication and Access Control

• Protocol tuning

• Experience working in environments utilizing Enterprise automation and configuration management tools such as Maven, Puppet, Chef

• Continuous integration - Automated component/application build and deployment - Server farm management (Automated server build and deployment) Virtualization

• Experience complying with PCI - DSS standards

• Experience in Application Security Code Review and/or Application Vulnerability Assessment

• Specific Experience with Highly Available Configurations of Tomcat, AMQ and MySQL

• Experience in a fast-paced, start-up environment

• A BS or MS is Computer Science or related fields