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Headquartered in Chicago, IL, Rewards Network powers the leading dining rewards programs in North America. Thousands of restaurants benefit from the financial and marketing services provided by the company, which include access to capital and numerous promotional programs via email, mobile and social media.
Rewards Network offers its dining programs in partnership with major airline frequent flyer programs, several of the nation's largest bank card issuers, numerous key players in the loyalty marketing industry and dozens of national corporations. Our millions of active members include frequent flyers, corporate cardholders and a pool of diners who spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually at participating restaurants

Rewards Network (RN) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Java) to help us develop key products to support the company's business strategy. As a member of the Consumer Development Team, you will work closely with stakeholders, business analysts, other software engineers and teams throughout Rewards Network to design and develop web sites and applications aligned with business requirements. The Senior Software Engineer (Java) will perform new development as well as escalated product support. We are looking for a passionate problem solver that is highly focused, agile and who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative and team-centric environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Works with a team of peers to architect, design and implement new application or feature sets in support of strategic business and IT initiatives
• Actively participates in all adopted Agile activities such as stand-ups, retrospectives, Continuous Delivery, TDD, ATDD, BDD (Behavior Driven Development) and knowledge sharing across team members.
• Participates in tasking sessions with delivery team
• Wants to be in a collaborative, trust-based, team-centric environment.
• Aggressively and proactively tests software throughout development cycle; inclusive of functional/unit-testing, and TDD (Test Driven Development).
• Documents design, and release notes with "just enough" documentation to support future development and operations staff
• Collaborates with Quality Assurance engineers in test case construction, issue identification, and remediation
• Continuously improves, refines, and refactors software
• Participates in the resolution of challenging and demanding problems across a number of technical topographies
• Ongoing product support and maintenance escalated from Support team
• Participates in the evolution and practice of Agile/Lean best practices

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science or comparable experience

 Key Skills for Success

• Excellent communication skills
• Goal-oriented and highly motivated
• Willingness to collaborate, share knowledge and learn from others
• Ability to stay current on new technologies
• Willingness to experiment, learn, adapt
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Ability to learn quickly and leverage past experience to offer new ideas and initiatives
• Willingness to develop domain expertise

Technical Skills for Success

• 5+ years of Java enterprise programming preferred
  
• 2+ years working on an Agile delivery team
• Understands, articulates, and conforms to core OOP principles
• Understands, utilizes, and leverages core Java architecture
• 8+ years of web-based development experience
• Experience with J2EE design and implementation, Spring Core (Dependency Injection, AOP, JDBC), Spring MVC, JUnit, Mockito, EhCache, JSPs, Servlet, Apache, Tomcat, Rest, JSON, SOAP, DWR, XML, SQL, Apigee and Linux.
• Experience with industry standard design patterns
• Experience with Team City, Git, Chef, IntelliJ a plus
• A commitment to developing solid, tested, high performance software
• Experience working within/constructing service oriented architectures is preferred
• Experience in a pair programming environment highly preferred, or the willingness to learn
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. Ability to work well with a wide variety of people with varying technical skill sets and business knowledge is required.
• Comfortable offering input across requirements phases and distilling the product into MVPs (Minimum Viable Products)
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills. Must be able to quickly assess problems and determine proper steps to resolution.
• Experience with running Tomcat & Apache in a clustered production environment

Rewards Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We encourage and strongly support workplace diversity.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.