Lextech is looking for energetic, technology savvy individuals to assist with our software/systems development projects. The engineer will help design and develop software systems in Java and PHP on a wide variety of platforms. This unique role is for the technical decathlete who is well versed at many different technologies and can readily apply them from a hands-on perspective.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understand a customer’s requirements and big picture view of the system to be developed
• Perform detailed system designs 
--Develop quality software in multiple programming languages
• Quickly identify and track down system bugs
• Design and create databases
• Quickly learn new technologies (languages, operating systems, tools) and be productive with them

REQUIREMENTS

• 2+ years hands on software development in Java and PHP
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Broad range of technical expertise including C/C++, MySQL, other open source technologies, networks, servers (Linux/Windows), databases, multiple technology frameworks is a plus
• Systems level knowledge including scaling systems in multi-server environments, load testing, interfacing many disparate systems, fault tolerance & security is a plus

If you'd like to be a part of our team and are based in the Chicago Illinois area (no telecommuting please), send your resume to careers@lextech.com. About 30% of our contracts for projects require US Citizenship. Please do not apply if you can not work on these projects.

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