Web Application Engineer - Community Applications

Job Summary

As a Web Application Engineer you will utilize your web development skills to improve a broad range of MathWorks User Community web applications. You will be responsible for feature enhancements and bug fixes on our customer facing corporate blog. In addition, you will be responsible for working on a Chinese web site, which is authored in PHP. You will also be assisting business areas in defining their needs and effectively translating business and technical requirements into functional specifications and application designs. Lastly, you will work with other developers on existing Ruby on Rails applications.

Responsibilities

• Make enhancements to improve our MathWorks User Community applications.
• Work with Business areas to define and document requirements for new application features
• Create technical specifications and work with Architecture to review those specifications
• Collaborate with Usability and designers to develop workflows and page designs
• Work with quality analysts to ensure test cases and plans are appropriately developed and adhered to
• Reduce the back log of bugs for all the applications in the MathWorks User Community area
• Focus on improving performance and availability across the application

Qualifications Required / Preferred

• B.S. plus 3 years of experience or M.S. degree in Computer  Science or Engineering
• Experience developing web applications in PHP
• Experience configuring and customizing WordPress, including authoring themes and plugins
• Experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with SQL and database concepts
• Fluent in Chinese

Pluses

• Experience with Ruby on Rails
• Experience with Discuz
• Experience with Linux and Apache
• Experience with jQuery, JSON, SOAP
• Experience with Agile or other software development methodologies
• Experience with MATLAB