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Company Name: Highgate Hotels, LLC
Job Title: Director of Product Development
Location: New York, NY
Profession: Software Design/Development

Job Description:

Hotel RevUp has been in incubation mode for the last 9 months and already has over 30 product installations in beta. The Company is preparing for full product launch in fall of 2009 and seeks an engineer to drive all product development, strategy, and implementation. We seek a passionate entrepreneur who gets an adrenalin rush from creating world class products as a team leader, developer, and strategist.
Our software leader will be embedded with an exceptional start-up team that has achieved profitability with one product and is now launching a second product as a separate company. The team of 15 possesses excellent esprit de corps, strong leadership, and a great work environment.

This is an outstanding opportunity to make your mark in the industry as a product leader in charge of all of the resources driving success. You will also be joining a company poised for explosive growth with unlimited performance based opportunity. The company offers excellent compensation including salary, bonus, and benefits.

Main Purpose of the Role:    
We seek an exceptional engineer who is ready to take the helm for a company about to grow by an order of magnitude. We seek an inspirational team leader, disciplined product manager, and visionary product strategist. We have an aggressive growth plan dependent on meeting product quality and delivery schedules. We seek an accomplished engineer who relishes the challenge of taking a product from incubation to industry wide launch.
Main Areas of Responsibilities:     Initially 30-40% oversight of India-based outsource team, 60-70 % key code development.

Experience/Skills and Abilities Required:     Required Experience:
- At least 6 years Java development experience in a team environment
- Experience as a lead developer on at least one successful Java/J2EE project
- Strong experience with J2EE and either Servlets or JSPs
- Developed at least one multi-tier application that connects to a relational DB using JDBC or an ORM framework
- Experience using an IDE (ideally Eclipse, but IntelliJ or other is fine)
- At least basic comfort working with HTML/CSS
- Comfortable working as a user on both Windows XP and at least one Linux distribution or Unix OS
- 4-year Computer Science bachelors degree, or equivalent
- Experience using a software configuration management system (CVS, SVN, etc.)
- Very strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong experience with at least one widely-used relational database, and comfort writing and optimizing SQL queries by hand (ideally MySQL, but PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server are also fine)
- Strong data modeling experience
- Experience working with applications in a SOA (service-oriented architecture)
- Ability to create technical documentation, participate in project estimation
- Ability to establish and maintain disciplined product development process
- Ability to understand customer needs and translate into effective product development plans especially non-technical front end user interface
- Ability to lead back-end product development through outsourced team
-Ability to establish effective QA process which balances speed to market with customer satisfaction
Education: Minimum BS: Software Engineering, MS: Software Engineering or MBA preferred


Desired Experience (the more the better):
- 3+ years experience in data warehouse development
- Experience with performance optimization of Microsoft SQL Server stored procedures, Analysis Services and cubes/queries
- Strong web user-interface development experience
- Experience with data-mining and/or statistical analysis software libraries
- Experience working with large data sets
- Experience with at least one MVC framework like Struts or Spring MVC
- Understanding of the hotel/hospitality industry
- Experience managing or working with outsourced software development teams
- Experience developing data-driven software facing a non-technical user profile
-Experience presenting to prospective client technologists
-Experience working with business partners in cross platform database integration
Education/Certifications Required:    
Education: Minimum BS: Software Engineering, MS: Software Engineering or MBA preferred


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