Bioware Seeks Web Programmer
BioWare Austin is looking for qualified Java/JMS/J2EE Programmer for our platform group to help create and maintain MMO platform systems.
Platform systems include ecommerce, subscriptions, business intelligence, global game systems (like chat or event logging), metrics, customer service tools, and other game systems global to the game service. The successful candidate will have expert knowledge of and experience in the design, implementation, and continuing support of JMS based enterprise applications. Extensive experience and knowledge of highly scalable, fault tolerant, uniformly designed, object oriented, distributed applications is required. End to end knowledge of application architecture from DB to web browser is also required for this job.
Our Jobs at Bioware page has information on how to apply and several other helpful resources.
BioWare|Pandemic is fueled by the new partnership of RPG leader BioWare Corp., and action/adventure powerhouse, Pandemic Studios. One of the world's largest and best-funded independent game developers, BioWare|Pandemic aims to attract the top industry talent by combining experienced management with a record of innovative, award-winning releases for original and licensed content.
BioWare Corp. is the developer of the award winning Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Shadows of Amn, Tales of the Sword Coast, MDK2, Shattered Steel, and the recently released Jade Empire, as well as the current developer of the upcoming sci-fi action RPG, Mass Effect, and the much anticipated Dragon Age. Here is a chance to get in at the ground level on Triple A titles with a stable and successful developer.
Required Skills
- Core
- A Bachelor’s degree in computing science or computer engineering.
- Minimum of 2 to 5 years professional software development experience writing Java/JMS/J2EE enterprise level applications
- Ability to take ownership of major features and components of our online gaming platform
- Experience using, modifying, integrating middleware applications to a common architecture
- Experience writing interfaces to 3rd-party products, including customer service, billing, chat, patching, and various other similar applications.
- Expertise in Apache, Tomcat, J2EE, JMS, OOD, web based GUI, SQL, DB Design, Struts, design patterns, ESB Design, XML, XSLT
- Excellent OO development skills, as demonstrated by having designed medium-large sized projects
- Good working knowledge of web based GUI
- Experience with design patterns and distributed systems
- Expertise with JMS/C++ interfaces
- Expertise in both application based replication and/messaging systems and database based systems
- Expertise in programming to distributed enterprise database environments
- Expertise in Unix/Linux
- Passion for playing video games.
- Able to relocate to Austin, Texas
- A Bachelor’s degree in computing science or computer engineering.
- Programming
- Expertise in building threaded architectures with Java/JMS/J2EE
- Expertise in database driven applications with Java/JMS/J2EE
- Expertise in building and maintaining a common base server architecture to be used throughout an organization
- Expertise in building threaded architectures with Java/JMS/J2EE
- Database
- Working knowledge of database schema design and underlying storage architectures
- Experience with database procedural language programming (PL/SQL) and schema design
- Working knowledge of database schema design and underlying storage architectures
Recommended Skills
- Ecommerce or Customer service applications experience
- C++ Expertise
- Perl, Python, Bash
- C# experience would be a bonus
- Game industry experience
- Platform system experience
How to apply
Please quote the following competition number in the subject line of your electronic application, or include in the cover letter of your mailed application:
07-Prog-WEB-BWA
To apply by email, send your resume and online portfolio to:
ProgrammerJobsAustin *AT* bioware.com
Due to the volume of applications we receive for our job postings, we are unable to respond personally to telephone inquiries regarding the status of an application. Only candidates being considered for interview will be contacted at this time.
Posted by QuocTran on February 22, 2007 10:57 PM
