Senior Software Engineer

Zappos is an online retailer specializing in shoes. In addition to shoes they sell handbags, clothing, eyewear, watches and accessories. The company is currently based in Henderson, NV, with a warehouse in Shepherdsville, KY. In addition, Zappos has a small number of brick-and-mortar outlet stores. The name Zappos is derived from the Spanish word zapatos, meaning shoes.

What are you currently doing? We’re building a system that serves the best customers in the world – The Zappos Family of Companies customers. Our custom-tuned web platform serves thousands of page views per second, drives our public API, sells lots of great merchandise each day, and uses some of the most cutting-edge technology available. We need you to come help us make this great system even better.

We are looking for smart, forward-thinking problem solvers to join our world-class technology team. We have built most of our systems on open-source technology. We use Solr, Drupal, Java, Elastic Search, EC2, and more (you can even help us figure out what else!).

As a Zappos Software Engineer, you will be developing a mix of new features for the site as well as investigating cutting-edge technologies to make the site better (either more robust, able to handle more transactions, or simply provide a better customer experience).

Experience and skills needed to do that thing you love at Zappos:

• BS/MS in Computer Science
• 3+ years production Java software development experience
• Solid computer science fundamentals (theory, data structures, algorithms)
• Experience with Java frameworks / build systems (Spring, Maven, JUnit, Camel, etc)
• Familiarity with testing related technologies such as EasyMock, Mockito, Selenium.
• Experience with Linux and Mac environment
• Experience with SQL and relational databases

Preferred:

• 5+ years Java software development in a production environment
• Made major contributions to the design/architecture of one or more projects
• Have assisted in the interview process for new developers
• Have mentored junior developers
• Good working knowledge of SQL
• Experience with web services
• Experience with high-volume transactional systems