Hello JUG,<br><br>I received this from Roy Harkness from Amazon via my network on LinkedIn. It looks like something that some of you might be interested in. I included Roy's message in full below.<br><br>--<br>Ryan Hoegg,<br>
President, OKCJUG<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Harkness, Roy</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harkness@amazon.com">harkness@amazon.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:50 AM<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ryan,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rob gave me your information regarding OKC Java Developers.
Here at Amazon, we’re doing a fair bit of hiring. We’re looking for
people with solid CS fundamentals and experience. I can take the resumes and
apply them directly to these or related job positions. Amazon has good relocation
packages (I came from the Chicago area with my family and have no complaints). </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> I have several positions open with the following
qualifications – </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Software Development Engineer -
Localization Services</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Interested in building highly
distributed and scalable systems that create, manage and deliver localized
content to the Amazon.com websites? Interested in building systems that allow
simple deployment of new websites customized for any language? Localization
Services team at Amazon.com owns workflow for translating content and the high
available systems that deliver this content for Amazon.com and its partners.
Our goal is to build technologies that provide a seamless and simple process to
allow localized website creation to 'just happen'.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Qualifications:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> * BS/MS degree
in Computer Science or equivalent</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> * 5+ years of
solid experience developing large scale distributed systems</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> * Solid
proficiency with Java, and C++. OOAD and OOP are a must, preferably in a
UNIX/Linux environment</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> * Candidates
must be independent, flexible, innovative, self-directed, eager to learn and
understand how to architect, design and write high-performance,
highly-available, and maintainable software.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> * Candidates
will be eager to understand the customers view and provide scalable and
maintainable solutions in a challenging environment.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> * Familiarity
with SQL, Perl, Oracle, JavaScript, AJAX, XML/XSLT, SOAP, Berkeley databases,
caching technologies, web protocols, web services technologies a strong plus</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> * Proven record
of completion of at least one full project life cycle is required.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> * Excellent
debugging skills and an attitude of enthusiastically supporting customers who
use our software are required</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> * Solid
communication skills and ability to work in a team and with internal customers
is critical</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Roy Harkness</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Media Services Applications</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Localization Services</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amazon.com</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Are you interested in building the next generation of
ubiquitous website language localization services? Contact me!</i></p>
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