Before applying to Pillar- please consider the following.
Are you downright crazy about writing quality software?
Do you refactor like Animal plays the drums (think Muppets)?
Are some of your heroes Uncle Bob, Ward Cunningham and Michael Feathers?
Would you love to be considered an Agile Ninja amongst your peers?
Do you own Munchkin or at least have engaged in one heated game of it in your life?
Do you want to work with people that value software craftsmanship and know the value of TDD, continuous integration, and lightweight design"
Do you have a light saber app on your iPod ? (C mon you know you do)
Do you want to work with people pushing the boundaries of agile thinking? Do you want to work with people that use Scrum, XP, and Kanban in their sleep and know when to break the rules?"
Hopefully, we have got your attention and you have said yes to at least 2 of these things- the light saber doesnt count, thats just gravy to us. If so, you please keep reading about Pillar and our current opportunities.
Over the last 13 years, Pillar has been successfully mentoring clients and implementing custom software development in a variety of industries. Our approach is influenced by Agile Methodologies (XP, Scrum, TDD) and includes practices such as Continuous Integration and lightweight design. This approach has enabled us to deliver measurable business value early and often in software development projects.
We strive to offer an exciting work environment that balances learning with delivery, a culture that is fun, flexible, fast paced and geared to the success of both the project and the individual.
Ideally candidates will be focused on:
Delighting customers,
software quality and development best practices,
unit test coverage and test-first work,
refactoring,
object-oriented design and design patterns,
continuous integration and rapid feedback from code.
Interpersonally, the ideal candidates will also be:
Simple, direct, and honest in dealing with customers and others,
Diplomatic, positive, and constructive,
Natural software coaches and mentors,
High-velocity programming implementers,
Excellent communicators
Passionate about contribute back to the community with open source projects (blogging, Facebook, twitter etc.) and participation in user groups, IT conferences, code retreats etc.
The very best candidates will also be:
Master software craftspersons with deep bags of tricks,
Passionate about project automation and programming pragmatics,
Reflexively inquisitive about the evolution of programming languages and software technologies generally,
Hotshots with Eclipse, IDEA, or NetBeans,
Interested or experienced in agile database practices like evolutionary database design,
Using or experimenting with new programming paradigms like Aspect-Oriented Programming.
Technologies:
Don*t get us wrong. Specific technology experience matters to us a great deal. It just matters less than the above. We prefer to hire talent and specific technology experience, but while the second may be optional, the first never is.
Right now we*re looking for developers and Tech Leads with significant J2EE experience, and experience with J2EE best practices. Ideally, candidates will be familiar with the lightweight J2EE frameworks movement and application server movement. They will be able to describe the differences between technologies like WebSphere vs. Tomcat, Struts vs. Spring, and Hibernate vs. straight Jdbc/Sql.
We also work increasingly in SOA environments, so all experience with Java SOA technologies is welcome.
For extra credit, tell us something about your experiences with Google Web Toolkit or Ruby on Rails, or about how you have used HtmltUnit or Selenium to provide good through-the-GUI web app functional test coverage, or about how you have used Fit or FitNesse for automated acceptance testing.
Please send resumes to rhoward@pillartechnology.com or direct message me on twitter @agilerecruiter.com
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Are you downright crazy about writing quality software?
Do you refactor like Animal plays the drums (think Muppets)?
Are some of your heroes Uncle Bob, Ward Cunningham and Michael Feathers?
Would you love to be considered an Agile Ninja amongst your peers?
Do you own Munchkin or at least have engaged in one heated game of it in your life?
Do you want to work with people that value software craftsmanship and know the value of TDD, continuous integration, and lightweight design"
Do you have a light saber app on your iPod ? (C mon you know you do)
Do you want to work with people pushing the boundaries of agile thinking? Do you want to work with people that use Scrum, XP, and Kanban in their sleep and know when to break the rules?"
Hopefully, we have got your attention and you have said yes to at least 2 of these things- the light saber doesnt count, thats just gravy to us. If so, you please keep reading about Pillar and our current opportunities.
Over the last 13 years, Pillar has been successfully mentoring clients and implementing custom software development in a variety of industries. Our approach is influenced by Agile Methodologies (XP, Scrum, TDD) and includes practices such as Continuous Integration and lightweight design. This approach has enabled us to deliver measurable business value early and often in software development projects.
We strive to offer an exciting work environment that balances learning with delivery, a culture that is fun, flexible, fast paced and geared to the success of both the project and the individual.
Ideally candidates will be focused on:
Delighting customers,
software quality and development best practices,
unit test coverage and test-first work,
refactoring,
object-oriented design and design patterns,
continuous integration and rapid feedback from code.
Interpersonally, the ideal candidates will also be:
Simple, direct, and honest in dealing with customers and others,
Diplomatic, positive, and constructive,
Natural software coaches and mentors,
High-velocity programming implementers,
Excellent communicators
Passionate about contribute back to the community with open source projects (blogging, Facebook, twitter etc.) and participation in user groups, IT conferences, code retreats etc.
The very best candidates will also be:
Master software craftspersons with deep bags of tricks,
Passionate about project automation and programming pragmatics,
Reflexively inquisitive about the evolution of programming languages and software technologies generally,
Hotshots with Eclipse, IDEA, or NetBeans,
Interested or experienced in agile database practices like evolutionary database design,
Using or experimenting with new programming paradigms like Aspect-Oriented Programming.
Technologies:
Don*t get us wrong. Specific technology experience matters to us a great deal. It just matters less than the above. We prefer to hire talent and specific technology experience, but while the second may be optional, the first never is.
Right now we*re looking for developers and Tech Leads with significant J2EE experience, and experience with J2EE best practices. Ideally, candidates will be familiar with the lightweight J2EE frameworks movement and application server movement. They will be able to describe the differences between technologies like WebSphere vs. Tomcat, Struts vs. Spring, and Hibernate vs. straight Jdbc/Sql.
We also work increasingly in SOA environments, so all experience with Java SOA technologies is welcome.
For extra credit, tell us something about your experiences with Google Web Toolkit or Ruby on Rails, or about how you have used HtmltUnit or Selenium to provide good through-the-GUI web app functional test coverage, or about how you have used Fit or FitNesse for automated acceptance testing.
Please send resumes to rhoward@pillartechnology.com or direct message me on twitter @agilerecruiter.com
Source: Joel On Software