Why iCrossing

For over 20 years, iCrossing has been partnering with the world’s largest B2B and B2C brands to provide connected marketing & technology solutions that transform brand experiences and marketing strategies into superior business outcomes. Our human centric approach evolves customer experience, employee experience, and user experience across digital and physical channels powered by data and intelligent creative.

We believe our biggest asset is our combination of different backgrounds, cultures, and disciplines that come together to form iCrossing community. What we do starts with our people.

We are part of the Hearst Corporation, the world’s leading media, entertainment, and content company, which gives us access to the most valuable data and insights, talent and audiences.

About this job

As an iCrossing Back End Engineer you’ll be joining a group of talented technologists tasked with developing and maintaining large scale Java, microservices functional infrastructure, all running on Amazon Web Services.

What you’ll do

• Be instrumental in developing digital experiences using cutting edge technology by leveraging your Java software development experience.
• Be a key part of an application development project team comprised of onshore and offshore developers using Scrum ceremonies and methodologies.
• Develop code in Java for highly visible marketing and eCommerce Websites.
• Ensure timely completion of your coding assignments, deliverables and provide system level documentation.
• Collaborate with Technical Managers to estimate specific work assignments, ensure the quality of your deliverables and provide status updates and highlight issues.
• You will participate in all Scrum processes, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, and Sprint Retrospectives.
  

Who you are

• 2+ years of experience building websites, APIs, or microservices.
• Creativity and experience developing best in-class software application in Java using variety of open-source Java frameworks, especially Spring framework.
• Experience in writing Java code that interacts with SQL or NoSQL databases; Cloud Web Services such as AWS EC2, S3, and Lambda or similar services-based API-driven cloud technologies.
• Knowledge of working with git and shells in a terminal on daily basis.
• Skills at setting your local development environment tooling and deploying code to a remote server environment.

Great if you also have

• Implementation knowledge of building custom components on a CMS platform.
• Working knowledge with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) CMS.
• Hands on capability of AEM versions 6.5 or AEM as a Cloud Service.
• Experience in: working with AEM Multi Site Manager to manage websites and launch localized websites; Integrating APIs with AEM; building RESTful services and troubleshooting them to HTTP protocol level; building OSGI components, services and servlets, custom-coded workflows; Cloud Web Services such as AWS API Gateway, Cognito, RDS, and DynamoDB or similar.
• Understanding in Continuous Integration technologies and deployment frameworks (i.e. Maven, Docker, Jenkins).
  

Our Mission & Values

The iCrossing mission is to Transform Experiences. The “we” is implied, but never taken for granted. This mission impacts the way we work, the way we think, the way we treat one another, and the way we evolve into what we want to be. We operate as a community of humans, and we can adapt and evolve because we are guided by values not rules.

Our core values map back to our vision.

Be Kind : lead with compassion. What you truly know about someone’s life is very little.
Lead with Candor : know the line. Is what you say true, good, and useful?
We Before Me : lead for others. The sum is always going to be greater than the parts.

We evolve clients for a human-centric future - creating a better world for everyone.

Benefits

iCrossing offers a range of employee benefits including generous PTO, 11 paid holidays, 401k + company match, full medical/dental/vision coverage, FSA & HSA options, family leave, commuter benefits, and more.

About our technology team

We’re engineers and solutions integrators experienced at all levels of the application life cycle. No matter our individual role, every team member has two essential responsibilities: build technologies that power digital transformations and make the impossible, possible.

With a clear focus on creating engaging, rich, and dynamic customer experiences, together we create world-class data-driven solutions for Omni-channel digital marketing initiatives. Keeping up with the proliferation of devices, operating systems and APIs takes some serious technical talent – and our team has lots of it!

We are better together. Each one of us has a role in making iCrossing an energizing and inspiring place to work.