Job Specification

Job Title : Software Engineer
Site : Waltham
Country : United States
Department : Product Development
Job Description

Making Software Work Together does not happen without smart, motivated people working together to make it happen. At IONA, you have the opportunity to join a growing, world-class global organization and watch as your ideas and contributions evolve into real results. Our Corporate Values live and breathe in our organization. Competitive compensation, attractive benefit packages and a winning corporate culture await team members who want to be on the leading edge of today's -- and tomorrow's -- integration technology landscape.

We're looking for an energetic, motivated and focused professional to help us write the next generation of tools to support our customers. If you have 3+ years writing Java and Developing User Interfaces we'd love to hear from you. Familiarity and willingness to develop eclipse components would be a big plus also. In this role you would get the opportunity to further develop your skills designing and developing UI components to support our Artix product set.


Responsibilities:

This role will be within IONA's User Interface Development team supporting all IONA products that require UI components. As part of this, you'll need to:

  • Take ownership of key UI components, design & deliver these on schedule
  • Work closely with those developing runtime features to ensure good UI coverage
  • Contributing to project planning in the team, understanding and following development processes, documenting, coding and/or application samples.
  • Keep up to date on general IT trends and feedback useful developments to the team


Experience & Qualifications:

Essential -
  • 3+ years developing Java applications
  • 3+ years exposure to developing Eclipse UI components
  • Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
  • Related educational background in Computer Science / Engineering
  • Experience with user interface design, eclipse technologies - plugin development, eclipse technologies - EMF, GEF, SWT and web development preferred
Desirable -
  • Version control systems such as Subversion, CVS & Clearcase
  • Experience of Agile Software Development and Test First Practices

As a member of IONA's team, you'll be a key part of the company that for more than 15 years has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix products. Artix, IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables customers to leverage service-oriented architecture to streamline and modernize IT environments. The Fuse family of open source distributed SOA infrastructure products allows customers to take advantage of the economic benefits associated with the use of open source software. At IONA, Making Software Work Together is our mission.