Web Application Engineer - Community Applications - Cody

Job Summary

As a Web Application Engineer you will utilize your web development skills to help us deliver the next version of Cody, which is a web application on mathworks.com. You will be responsible for feature enhancements to Cody that help our customers learn how to better use MATLAB. In addition you will help us better integrate Cody with MATLAB. You will also be assisting business areas in defining their needs and effectively translating business and technical requirements into functional specifications and application designs. Experience with Ruby on Rails and MATLAB are essential. 

Responsibilities

• Developing features and enhancements to improve Cody, a web application.
• Work with Cross functional teams 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 engineers to ensure test cases and plans are appropriately developed and adhered to
• Ensure the application meets our high quality standards
• Focus on improving performance and availability across the application

Qualifications Required / Preferred

• BS + 5yrs experience, or MS degree, in Computer  Science or Engineering
• 3+ years experience developing MVC web applications in Ruby on Rails or Java/Struts
• Experience with SQL and database concepts
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML/XSL/XSLT, AJAX
• Experience with MATLAB
• Knowledge of Software Development Methodologies
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Plusses

• Experience with Linux and Apache
• Experience with jQuery, JSON, SOAP
• Experience with Agile development methodologies