Junior Developer

Aircell is the world's leading provider of airborne communications. Gogo, powered by Aircell, turns a commercial airplane into a Wi-Fi hotspot with true inflight Internet access. We are hiring talented professionals to bring passengers a great inflight experience. COME ABOARD A WINNING TEAM!

Aircell offers an excellent compensation and benefits package. Aircell employees receive comprehensive group insurance programs including health, dental, and vision coverage. In addition, employees receive life insurance coverage, plus short- and long-term disability insurance. Employees can elect to participate in a 125 pre-tax benefit program for health or dependent-care expenses, as well as a generous 401(k) investment plan. Employees also receive paid vacation and 8 paid holidays per year.

Location:

Chicago, IL

Job Type:

Full Time

Summary:

The junior engineer will assist in development of the gogo.com platform and other system support service API's. The candidate must be able to thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment with a variety of development tools and be able to adapt quickly to new technologies, platforms and priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Support the creation of technical documentation for projects assigned [detailed design documents & system interface specifications documents].
• Develop service gateway API's based on the technical documents.
• Focus on end-to-end performance and on the customer experience as key differentiators of Aircell against the competition.
• Track project tasks, provide status and ensure tasks completed on schedule.
• Troubleshoot defects and code resolutions.
• Maintain robust build process and produce detailed release notes.
• Assist infrastructure team in configuration of web, application & SOA servers. • Contribute to process improvements, including researching and introducing new development tools.

Required Education:

• 1 + Years Experience in Information Technology.
• 1+ Years Experience developing n-tier Internet applications with Java/J2EE (EJB, JSP, • Servlet & JMS).
• Experience with JBoss or similar J2EE application server(s).
• An understanding of cache and performance management within the application layer stack.
• Experience with open source frameworks such as Struts, Spring, and Hibernate and with Standard JAVA development tools including Eclipse, Jboss developer studio, ANT, Maven, Cruise Control, log4J, etc. • Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML and XSLT.
• Understanding of Linux/Unix/Microsoft Environments.
• Working knowledge of Oracle and MySql database platform.
• Bachelors Degree in MIS,CS,IS

Reports To:

Manager/Director IS

How To Apply:

Prior to submitting your response, we encourage you to review our company web site, to learn more about us and the GoGo Inflight Internet service.

We request that interested candidates send us your response via e-mail only. In your subject line please include the position title. Your resume & cover in plain text, MS Word or RTF is welcomed at recruiting@aircell.com

Please no agencies, phone calls, third parties.

Aircell LLC is an equal opportunity employer and works in compliance with both federal and state laws. We are committed to the concept regarding Equal Employment opportunity. Qualified candidates will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, marital status, medical condition or disability.