DATAllegro is a venture capital funded startup in southern Orange County producing patent pending, high performance data warehouse appliances.

The Java Engineer will show both architecture and programming skills, being able to take requirements to a working module. The position will be responsible for working on immediate concerns for both customers and potential customers and must be capable of diagnosing complicated systems. Analyze business problems and provide technical solutions including the creation of prototypes. Performs a wide variety of tasks and has the ability to work on most aspects of the DATAllegro appliance.

• Assume a Java engineering position providing design and coding of software solutions.
• Proactively communicates status reports, issues and areas of potential risk to management.
• Contributes to the development and enhancement of DATAllegro methods, techniques, processes and practices.
• Follow company guidelines and processes related to software development.
• Provide strategic vision to help lead design down an architectural path that is consistent with DATAllegro Appliance vision.
• Maintain expert knowledge of the company’s technology.
• Responsible and capable to work on customers production machines where data integrity and confidentiality is important.
• Provide R/D ideas and requirements to help the company stay on the bleeding edge of what is possible in data warehousing.
• Diagnose difficult software diagnosis acting as 3 rd level support on critical issues.
• Implement complete software features including creating and performing unit testing.
• Constantly work towards an error free product including working with QA and fixing issues even in other people’s code.
• Strong problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Produce use cases and architecture models describing proposed design.
• Capable of implementing features/fixes within a wide variety of DATAllegro software modules
• Proficient in designing performance architectures as well as tuning these architectures.
• Implement a highly reliability and highly redundant solution.
• Perform other duties as required.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

• Expertise with Windows, Unix and Linux operating systems
• Strong Object Oriented (OO) skills
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in Java
• Experience in high performance tuning
• Ability to problem solve under tight deadlines and customer pressure
• Parallel processing experience (multiple servers processing but different data, not just threading)
• Exposure to data warehousing including architecture, data modeling, business intelligence and ETL.
• SQL query analysis, database performance optimizations skills, dimensional data modeling, and architecture a plus
• Familiarity with known DBMS Servers (Oracle, Ingres, Postgres, SQL Server, DB2, etc.)
• Knowledge of common open source frameworks, like iBATIS and Spring
• Ability to architect as well as implement on tight time schedules
• Exposure to UML design and modeling tools
• Ability to work in an Agile environment
• Good written and verbal communications
• Reliable and capable of meeting deadlines
• Bachelor degree in a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills may be acquired. Masters degree a plus.
• Previous consulting and/or start-up company experience desired.

About DATAllegro:
DATAllegro is a venture capital funded startup in southern Orange County producing patent pending, high performance data warehouse appliances. We are committed to providing a total solution for large scale data warehouses that greatly exceeds current price / performance barriers by exploring new technologies and new approaches to current problems. We are looking for highly motivated individuals to further build our team of professionals who not only meet skill requirements, but also feel comfortable in the dynamic and fast-changing startup environment.

• We offer 100% premium paid medical with an option of 3-4 different plan providers (both HMO and PPO plans available), dental (DMO or DPO) and Vision (VSP) for our employees, their spouses and dependants.
• Charles Schwab managed 401K
• Pre Public Stock option grants with a well funded start up.
• Free, in complex gym membership.
• 13 PTO Days off, 2 personal days and 11 paid holidays for 2007 for a total of 26 paid days off first year.
• Great people with a friendly, upbeat environment.

How to Apply:
To apply for this position, please send your resume and salary requirements to jobs@datallegro.com.