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The Cobalt Group is the leading provider of online retailing and search engine marketing solutions for the automotive industry and is looking for Java engineers to innovate our growing Digital Advertising & Marketing Platform offering. Candidate must be able to thrive in a small focused team with high energy to innovate creative solutions and solve complex real world problems. Our Digital Advertising & Marketing Platform offering is changing the Automotive landscape through our broad set of highly specialized and targeted consumer offerings. This position is a rewarding opportunity to express your creativity, work with intelligent, innovative people, and have your work touch millions of consumers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Evolve existing framework to support new scalability requirements as well new functionality needed.
• Identify and drive new solutions to enhance the development cycle to increase development productivity.
• Work with team to drive better persistence structures to increase throughput throughout the various layers in the application including Database.
• Analyze and test new algorithms to increase ROI on media spend across various providers and within each provider.
• Mentor and lead subordinate developers in adopting best practices craftsmanship.

Required Skills:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• Enthusiasm for solving interesting and complicated problems
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing highly scalable, distributed application systems.
• Extensive experience with SOA model.
• Extensive experience programming in Java, writing complex finely tuned SQL.
• Extensive knowledge in fine tuning SQL and understanding execution plans.
• Experience with Unix/Linux environments, distributed systems, developing large software systems.
• Extensive experience in Multi-Tiered Web applications.
• Extensive experience designing robust scalable applications.
• Extensive experience architecting complex data models to handle millions of transactions.
• Extensive experience in application design and Implementation using agile practices & TDD.
• Experience with Hadoop is a plus.
• Experience with Spring, AJAX, JSF, Struts, iBatis, Hibernate, SEAM, MS-SQL 2005 and Oracle 10g is a plus

Cobalt – Culture and Benefits
The Cobalt work environment is fast-paced, energized, informal and fun, but with a serious focus on quality, customer service, innovation, and an ongoing commitment to excellence. Benefits include medical/dental/vision and wellness programs for employee and dependents (including domestic partners), life insurance, paid vacation time, personal days, sick leave and holidays, 401K with match, employee referral bonuses, stock option plan, subsidized parking fees and bus pass, onsite gym, and more.


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• Location: Seattle, WA
• Compensation: Competitive
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