Java Developer

Overview:
Zoot provides comprehensive, robust, and flexible credit decisioning, loan origination, and credit risk management solutions to fit our clients’ unique initiatives. We improve performance for innovative financial institutions through a reliable, secure, and scalable ASP environment, accounting for hundreds of millions of credit transactions each year.

Systems and Database Developers, Project Managers, Solutions Developers, Quality Assurance Analysts, and Business Analysts make up the cross-functional teams of Zoot’s Delivery Group. The Delivery Group focuses on selectively designing, building, and efficiently using Zoot tools and services to create our clients’ solutions. The Java Programmer position within the Delivery Group focuses on using agile development methodologies to design and develop solid software. They create client & server systems, swing and web applications, plug-able components and database interfaces using Java and associated technologies.

The Java Programmer position is ever changing and requires flexibility, self-initiative, and regular management of changing priorities. Occasional nighttime and weekend work is required within this position.

Job Functions:
Design, develop, and maintain client software in accordance with internal or external client specifications, following general Zoot programming practices and procedures.

Test and verify code to ensure that it meets specifications and requirements, by recording and analyzing test data.

Update knowledge and skills to keep up with rapid advancements in industry technological advances and software technology, including languages, operating systems, development tools, etc.

Analyze and fully understand Zoot systems, their dependencies, relationships and transport mechanisms to ensure that project code is fully integrated with other aspects of a platform (criteria, decision engine, messaging, LOS, web, TB, etc).

Analyze and fully understand Zoot’s distributed system, development process, transaction flow, credit processing business, company structure, internal tools and related rules, regulations, guidelines, policies and procedures.

Provide reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques.

Apply Zoot’s mission statement, desired behavior and tenets and exhibit a desire to see Zoot succeed.

Apply a sense of urgency, commitment and focus on the right priorities in developing solutions in a timely fashion.

Proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: C, C++, or Java.

Working knowledge of one or more of the following is preferred: Python, PHP, CSS3, HTML, Javascript, XSLT, XML, SQL, PL-SQL.

Write, update, and maintain computer programs or software packages.

Correct errors by making appropriate changes and rechecking the program to ensure that the desired results are produced.

Conduct trial runs of programs and software applications to be sure they will produce the desired information and that the instructions are correct.

Test and verify code to ensure that it meets specifications and requirements, by recording and analyzing test data.

Analyze and fully understand project requirements to formulate and implement programmatic solutions that efficiently and effectively address said requirements.

Plan tasks accordingly to meet individual project deadlines by utilizing initiative and good judgment, personal planning, goal setting and positive, proactive interaction with other organizations.

Confer with and provide software engineering expertise to project design, sales and marketing, and other team members throughout the product development and implementation process .

Education, Training, and Experience Requirements:
Four year college degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.