Blizzard Entertainment seeks a talented and enthusiastic web software engineer to join our web team in Irvine, California. The web team develops customer facing web sites, ranging from account management and e-commerce sites, to community forums and character profiles for multiple regions around the globe. The software engineer is responsible for creating new and improving existing applications in a high-load, high-availability environment. The role focuses heavily on server-side web programming, while interfacing with front-end design teams to create applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience
  
• A minimum of 3 years’ of professional web application development
  
• Strong programming skills, including experience with Java, and application development for the web
  
• Comfortable with Linux / UNIX, Apache, and Tomcat
  
• Solid understanding of web-related technologies (e.g. HTML / XHTML, HTTP)
  
• Experience working with modern databases and SQL
  
• Experience working in a team environment on multiple projects
  
• Passion for the web and video games
  

Pluses

• Experience working on Blizzard Entertainment community fan-sites
  
• Experience working in very high-load environments
  

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