The overview:
Accuity is growing! Not content with being a $140m market leading online brand we are growing our product portfolio and are seeking both lead and senior developers to join our thriving Chicago based development center. Accuity 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!