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About Work Market, Inc.
Work Market is a new venture, backed by Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. We are building a modular web platform, designed to power anyone or any business to efficiently deliver and manage labor and services. WM was founded by Jeffrey Leventhal, who previously founded the on-site services marketplace OnForce.com.

Our aspirations are grand, and we have lots to do to win at this and change the world with our labor platform. Here is our commitment to you: You will be surrounded by ambitious, super smart people who like to push the envelope with technology. We’re building stuff that simply has not been built before. In return, we ask that: You be in touch with the real world; you think, live and breathe like a user of our system. We only do well if we develop the best user experiences possible. Applications that touch people as deeply as the stuff we build is as much art as it is science. We’re working hard to build the best technology team ever assembled. So…best team, EVERY labor engagement in one platform – sound crazy? Still interested? Read on…

Responsibilities:

• Builds and develops back end system components using a J2EE-based framework
• Works with lead developer to during all phases of the software development release cycle
• Documents code to ensure supportability and maintainability of core system assets
• Writes unit tests to ensure code coverage
• Promotes shared ownership in the code-base and assists other developers

• Mentors junior developers when needed

Requirements:

• 5+ years of developing complex Java / J2EE applications
• Experience working with modular, component based systems
• Experience building software using scrum/agile methodologies
• Experience developing high-volume transactional systems
• Experience writing unit tests
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Experience working in a team environment
• Strong experience leveraging open source frameworks as part of building software solutions

• BS in Computer Science or related degree

Technical Skills – Required:

• Java / J2EE (5+ years)
• Spring and related frameworks (Hibernate, Acegi etc…) (3+ years)
• Experience building Service Oriented Architectures using SOAP/REST (3+ years)
• Experience publishing/consuming APIs (2+ years)
• Hands-on experience using RDBMS systems, especially MySQL Databases (5+ years)
• XML and related technologies (XQuery, XPath) (2+ years)
• Lucene/Compass and/or other search technologies (2+ years)
• JUnit (2+ years)
• Linux (5+ years)
• Ant and/or Maven (2+ years)

• Resin/Tomcat/JBoss Application Servers (5+ years)

Our Process
You should expect to meet lots of people on our team during the interview process. Feel free to show off why you’re great. Bring more than just tight code. Tricks? Poetry? Music? Juggling? Well-rounded, interesting and entertaining people are a plus. Start up experience? Been through Plan A, B and C? Did you handle this well? You must be hardworking, easygoing, able to articulate concepts and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences, and have labor/services/the social web/open source in your DNA!

High maintenance people need not apply; if you are accustomed to (or plan on demanding) a laptop, mobile phone plan or shoes for your new job, we are probably not the place for you. Lastly, if you’re the person that is standing outside your building smoking a few times a day, you’re probably not the right person either…

Legal Stuff
Work Market, Inc., is an equal opportunity employer and offers a competitive salary and benefits package. To qualify, an applicant must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident alien (“green card holder”), temporary resident alien, refugee or asylee. Visa sponsorship is not available.