Software Architect at Sermo (Cambridge, MA 02142)

READY TO CHANGE HEALTHCARE?

Sermo, the largest and fastest growing online physician-only community, is leading a movement to fundamentally change healthcare in America. Combining current technology, financial strength, and thousands of dedicated physicians, we aim to radically improve healthcare — for patients, doctors, and the industry as a whole.

We do this by freeing up the most important medical information on the planet — the knowledge living in the minds of physicians. Sermo amplifies physicians’ voices as they share their insights, building on each other’s knowledge while empowering government, industry, investors, research groups, and others to learn and adapt from this rich base of living experience in real-time.

From design and engineering to sales and finance, our people are among the best in their fields. Do you think you have what it takes to help drive this kind of monumental change? After all, to tackle a goal this colossal it takes a lot of brilliant minds — which is why we’d like to know more about yours.

RESPONSIBILITIES

–The Software Architect will be hands-on, and will be expected to bring new and fresh ideas to the company and its solutions.

–Must have architecting experience with multi-tier, highly available, scalable, performance-oriented, distributed transaction web environments.

–Must be capable of working independently, as well as with and across teams, in supporting this Java/XML-based J2EE/EJB 3.0 enterprise level application running under JBoss on Linux.

–Work with product management in understanding new requirements.

–Collaborate with other developers and architects in creating solutions that meet business requirements.

–Participate in the design of large-scale, complex systems, and assist other engineers with completion of their projects as needed.

–Remain technically current in an effort to profile, prototype and implement optimal and practical solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS

–10+ years of experience in multiple professional software development environments.

–6+ years of Java development experience in a Linux environment.

–Solid J2EE web development experience, including experience with Servlets and EJB, preferably including EJB 3.0.

–A mastery of core Java concepts.

–Must have previously architected in project environments with 10+ software engineers.

–Expertise with object oriented development and design patterns.

–Experience with frameworks such as Struts, Spring and Hibernate is a must.

–Experience with a J2EE compliant enterprise application server, preferably JBoss.

–Experience with XML, SOA and Web Services is a plus.

–Ruby on Rails experience is a plus.

–Honesty, integrity, flexibility, enthusiasm and a positive, can-do attitude.

–Ability to multi-task and thrive in a fast paced, start-up environment.

–Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

SO, WHY JOIN SERMO?

You’ll want to join the team at Sermo for the chance to up your skills on a mission that is as far-reaching as you can imagine — you may be great at what you do, but together we can accomplish so much more.

To tell us about yourself and find out if you have what it takes to make Sermo great, email working@sermo.com.

Interested? email working@sermo.com