Software Engineer

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Cappex.com is a growing and successful company with a great mission to help students discover, research, and apply to colleges. Over 9 million high school students have registered on Cappex.com’s family of websites (Cappex.com & CollegeGreenlight.com) and we work with around 600 colleges--the vast majority of which are nonprofit 4-year colleges in the US. Our office is located in downtown Chicago and we offer the following perks:

●     Work in a casual environment with talented and passionate people

●     Free snacks and soft drinks

●     Career growth and learning opportunities through regular team lunch and learns as well as conference & training attendance

●     Full benefits package and a matching 401k plan

●     Pre-tax transit benefits

 

The Role:

You'll be joining our superb engineering team to work on projects that feed into our bi-weekly release cycle. You'll be responsible for researching, designing and developing features for Cappex.com and our related systems. You'll participate with the rest of the team in planning sessions, code reviews, releases, and retrospectives. You'll also be working closely with our Product Development team to ensure the best tools are built by participating in discovery sessions, user story definition and estimate assignment, all in an agile environment.

 

The Right Candidate:

The right candidate will be joining an excellent team focused on providing students with personally relevant information and ample opportunities to learn and build their college experience and success.

 

Requirements:

●     Experience developing high trafficked public-facing web applications

●     Experience writing scalable and efficient code for large production web applications

●     Java

●     JavaScript

●     Relational database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle

●     CSS / Sass / LESS

●     HTML

●     Ability to take initiative and work in a fast paced environment with little oversight

●     Strong analytical skills and attention to detail

●     Excellent communication skills

●     Strong commitment to quality

●     Strong commitment to performance

 

Beneficial Experience:

●     ES6

●     Building Single Page Applications with React + Redux or a framework such as Angular

●     Responsive web development

●     Java Spring framework

●     Database ORM tools such as Hibernate, JPA, or MyBatis/iBatis

●     RESTful web services

●     Linux

 

To Apply:

All applications will be kept confidential. We appreciate all interest, but will only contact those applicants with whom we wish to proceed further.

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200 W. Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60606

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