Sr. 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:

SOA engineer is responsible for design, development & maintenance of the ecommerce gateway and other system support service API's. The engineer holds the responsibility for providing the detailed design for the assigned service gateway projects. The role ensures that the projects are in line with the overall IT roadmap and are completed on time, meet the requirements and conform to the enterprise architecture guidelines. 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:

• Review requirements and high level designs.

• 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.

• Provide guidance and mentoring to other members of the team.

• Contribute to process improvements, including researching and introducing new development tools.

Required Skills:

• 7 + Years Experience in Information Technology.

• 5+ Years Experience developing n-tier Internet applications with Java/J2EE (EJB, JSP, Servlet & JMS). • Must be proficient with SOAP/REST Web services, message queues & rules engines.

• Experience with JBoss or similar J2EE application server(s).

• Experience with JBoss Enterprise SOA platform is a must.

• Prior experience in integrating with Payment Gateway is desirable.

• Strong understanding of JBoss ESB, Drools, jBPM/JPDL, SAML, Web services security.

• Excellent understanding of cache and performance management within the application layer stack.

• Good understanding of JBoss Seam framework.

• Proficient 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.

• Strong understanding of Linux/Unix/Microsoft Environments.

• Operations architecture and/or security architecture.

• Working knowledge of Oracle and MySql database platform.

Required Education:

Bachelors Preferred

Reports To:

Manager IT Development

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 CHICAGO AREA 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.