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Company: Zipcar, Inc.

Location: Boston, MA

Position Title: Senior Software Engineer ( R0181539)

Job Description:

Create world-class APIs for web, mobile, and external teams supporting over a million members. Work collaboratively with product designers, product managers and quality engineers to deliver innovative new solutions and applications for a market leader in the mobility space. Develop and release scalable, high-performance applications. Strive for continuous improvement of the Zipcar member experience. Coach and mentor other engineers and provide technical leadership. Contribute to review and scope product requirements with Product Managers and UX designers. Collaborate with full stack and backend engineers in developing cross-functional products through feature development and integrations with other microservice components. Provide technical feedback to QA engineers for test cases creation and participate in test driven development. Position is fixed location based in Boston, MA office; however, telecommuting from a home office may also be allowed

Job Requirements:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Electronic Engineering or a directly related field plus five (5) years of experience in a Developer position working in an ecommerce environment. Experience must include:

Five (5) years of experience in each of the following (experience may be gained concurrently):

• Developing Microservices with Postgres DB interfaces, schemas and queries, and REST APIs
• Designing features using Event Driven Architecture
• Using Docker containers to develop and deploy microservices
• Developing distributed web applications with high performance, scalable, and secured by integrating with security plugins
• Debugging skills to investigate and resolve production issues within time constraints

One (1) year of experience in each of the following (experience may be gained concurrently):

• Experience in one of the following Server-side scripting languages: JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, bootstrap, Node.js, Angular.js, Backbone.js, Ext.js, Responsive design or JSP
• Experienced working with Kubernetes for containerized application management.

40 hours/week, 9:00am-5:00pm.

To apply: send CV to zipcarrecruiting@zipcar.com w/ (req # R0181539)