The Portal Engineer develops media and business solutions by designing,
developing and supporting web solutions for boston.com and
bostonglobe.com. The Portal Engineer develops functionality for the CMS,
templates front-end mark-up, and collaborates on quality solutions to
challenging requests and bugs. New solutions are typically developed in the
Methode CMS using JSTL, XSL, and Java. Portal Engineers must
collaborate with the Solutions team, the Operations team, the Front End web
developers, the Software Engineers, the Business Analysts and the Project
Managers.
Responsibilities include:
• Reviews and influences ongoing designs, standards
and methods for boston.com and bostonglobe.com
• Develops innovative media and business solutions for stable, secure,
high volume web-based applications through a standardized
software development life cycle.
• Committed to continually learning through actively participating in code reviews and solution demonstrations, participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications,
maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
• Uses Jira to document progress , code migrations and status on work assignments and communicates these updates during daily standups.
• On call support of front end solutions for boston.com and bostonglobe.com
• Provides complete technical documentation, code comments, and readable code that is properly stored in a version control system.
• Possesses an intense drive to learn how to improveur core
products and services