Software Craftsman

khuziek — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:32:00 GMT

Point2 is looking for motivated developers with strong problem solving, system design, and performance tuning skills to become part of the technical team developing enterprise software for the Real Estate industry. You will be working on the systems underlying homes.point2.com and agent.point2.com solving many of the exciting challenges we face in aggregating and syndicating the world’s real estate listing data and creating tools for agents and brokers to manage those listings.

Candidates must be team oriented, be able to work in a fast-paced, open environment, have excellent communication skills, and enjoy keeping up with industry and technical advancements.

Why work on the Agent Team?

• Empowered to design and deliver the best solution
• Building an industry standard platform already used by 50,000 Real Estate professionals
• Re-architecting existing applications to a loosely-coupled SOA
• Developing extremely scalable and highly performant applications
• Working as part of a heterogeneous environment (Windows, Linux, Mac)
• Delivering working software into production every two weeks
• High degree of collaboration across the whole company and within each team

A Craftsman must have outstanding communication skills, a strong desire to work as part of a team and skills in all three of the following:
• C# or Java
• SQL
• Web Technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

The craftsman role at Point2 extends beyond just simple software development. A craftsman is expected to:
• Raise the standard of development on the whole team
• Mentor and share knowledge as a state of being, not an activity
• Be able to make sweeping change without breaking the team, the app, or a sweat
• Know other people who operate at this same level
• Live and breathe the lifestyle associated with Agile/XP development
• Have experience developing scalable enterprise web applications

You probably have experience in a half a dozen other languages, know how to run workshops or presentations, and have led small teams from time to time.

Please visit www.point2.com/careers/ to apply or email your resume to DEVcareers@point2.com.

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scorbett — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:50:00 GMT

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Point2 Syndication Blog

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About Point2

Point2 Technologies Inc. is a software company headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada.

We build web marketing technology for the heavy equipment and real estate industries, and have been proudly serving in this capacity since 1996.

Our products include:

Point2 Agent
The complete web marketing solution for real estate agents and brokers
CatUsed
Caterpillar Inc.'s global used heavy equipment system
Point2 Manager
Web marketing solution for heavy equipment dealers and contractors
Point2 Homes
(Global real estate listing marketplace)
Point2 UsedIron
Global heavy equipment marketplace