Senior Software Engineer/Architect (CSO100 )

Shopzilla, formerly BizRate.com, is a leading shopping search engine on the Web. With an index of over 30 million products from more than 50,000 stores, gathered, organized and presented using all proprietary leading-edge technology, Shopzilla provides consumers the best way to find virtually anything for sale, anywhere, and at the best price. In addition to our flagship site (http://www.shopzilla.com), Shopzilla also powers shopping search for many of the Web's largest consumer sites including AOL, Lycos, Time Warner's RoadRunner, and many others.

At Shopzilla, our goal is to build the greatest shopping service ever conceived by mankind. To that end, we strive very hard to hire the smartest people. We?re an environment where great ideas shape our vision and true passion drives us to the best solutions to the most challenging problems at the intersection of shopping and search.

If that sounds like something you'd like to be involved in, please read on.



As our Sr. Software Engineer/Architect, you will:

* Architect and implement new projects
* Serve as tech lead on projects from inception to deployment
* Act as technical representative during proposal phase of projects
* Help define overall architecture and standards for entire team

Your qualifications include:

* Exceptional communication skills
* Enjoys working in a tight knit team development environment
* 5+ years of object oriented programming
* Skilled in developing dynamic, object oriented, web applications
* Architecting web applications
* Perl/mod_perl, Apache, and UNIX/Linux skills
* Comfortable with RDBMS concepts

But wait, there's more!

Desired skills include:
* Test-driven development
* Understands design patterns
* Participated in Agile development environment
* Template Toolkit experience
* BS in Computer Science or comparable experience






 

Shopzilla offers great benefits including medical, dental and vision plans, life insurance, 401(k) plan, flexible spending account, generous vacation benefits -- and we even provide FREE catered lunch every single day!

So, if you are the super-star type -- the one all look to as the smartest in your area of expertise -- love challenging yourself, and are searching for a place to work where people care, your ideas matter and you can make a real difference to helping millions of consumers, then we need to talk.

Shopzilla is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

 To Apply for this position please submit your resume here.

 

 

 

Key Words:

 

Sr. Software Engineer / Architect

Perl/mod_perl, c/c++, Java

Apache, HTML, and UNIX skills

XML, Web Services, Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Semantic Web, RDF

RDBMS: Sybase ASE, Sybase IQ, knowledge of SQL

Subversion VCS

OOD/OOA/OOP