Are you a Software Development Engineer interested in helping a long-standing internet business to continue to improve the customer experience and drive growth in the dynamic market of search engines? If so, we have a great opportunity for you.BookFinder.com -- a subsidiary of AbeBooks.com and part of the Amazon.com Inc. group of companies is looking for a junior software developer with a strong sense of ownership and customer focus. If you feel excited about leveraging technology to address the technical and business challenges of running a search engine, searching the listings of over 70 international book sellers listing more than 150 million new, used, rare, and out-of-print books, we'd like to meet you.This position is based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. We also have an office in Berkeley, California and from these two locations we run five international web sites: BookFinder.com, JustBooks.de, JustBooks.co.uk, JustBooks.fr and JustBooks.nl.As a member our small and agile team, you will participate in a broad range of activities including web-based user interface design, performance analysis and optimization, database design, testing, statistical analysis and the construction of business cases. The diversity of these activities ensures that this position offers a broad and exciting combination of technical and business challenges and opportunities.The successful candidate will have the following qualifications:?At least 1 year experience with an interpreted language (Perl, Java, etc.).?Working knowledge of HTML/CSS with some Javascript.?BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent?Excellent communication skills?Solid understanding of OOD/OOP?Solid background in algorithms and data structures?Able to learn quickly and dive deeply to diagnose the root cause of problemsAny of the following would be beneficial:?Experience with Perl, Git, Mason, Apache, Linux, SQL.?An understanding of Ecommerce?Agile practices and methodologies such as Test Driven Development and Scrum?An interest in the non-technical sides of the business?A love of books and readingIf you enjoy constantly broadening your technical skills, building software that affects users around the world, and working in an environment that thrives on creativity and product innovation, please get in touch and talk to us about why this is the job for you.Please send your resume to hr@abebooks.com or fax to 250-475-6014, Attention HR.We appreciate your interest in BookFinder!


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