The overview:
Accuity is growing! Not content with being a $140m market leading online brand we are growing our product portfolio and are seeking Java Developers right through from Jnr level to Head of Development level to join our thriving Chicago based riverside development center. BankersAccuity is a leading brand within Reed Business Information, one of the world’s top-100 ‘online superpowers’ and part of the FTSE100 Reed Elsevier media and publishing group.
You’ll be working for a market leading online data brand currently worth c.$140m annually and growing quickly; you’ll be working in a cross-functional team, working alongside colleagues from a variety of technical and commercial functions – this makes us more agile, and builds greater understanding and closer relationships between technology and other business areas, it also means that you learn more, have a more varied role, and further diversify your skills!
And the tech?
We’re a technology driven business and the technical landscape here is both advanced and constantly changing as we explore new and more efficient/effective ways of creating our products; we also work with a number of industry leading technology partners who keep us on top of our game.
Here’s a snap-shot of some of the things we do and use:
- Java 1.7
- RESTful services using Restlet
- Dependency Injection and IoC (Inversion of Control) using Spring
- MarkLogic (NoSQL database)
- Hibernate
- Spring MVC
- Git
- Gradle
- One-click deployments, continuous integration and test automation (Puppet, Jenkins, AWS)
- HTML 5 and CSS 3
- JavaScript frameworks and tools (Backbone/Marionette, jQuery, RequireJS, Jasmine, Grunt)
- XQuery
- Agile (Scrum)
And the list goes on!