Company/Department: The Learning Bar Inc. (TLB) / IT Department
Location: Fredericton, NB
Salary: Commensurate with skills, qualifications and experience; group benefits and profit sharing upon successful completion of a probationary period.

The Company
The Learning Bar (www.thelearningbar.com) was founded in 2005 by Professor Douglas Willms and colleagues. The Learning Bar specializes in the development of evidence-based educational systems aimed at reliably informing educators and school administrators. Its flagship products include the Early Years Evaluation (EYE), an instrument for the direct assessment of children’s developmental skills at ages 3 to 6, and OurSCHOOL|TTFM (Tell Them From Me), a school improvement system that collects, analyses, and reports on factors that are known to affect student learning outcomes currently used in over 250 school jurisdictions across 6 countries. Our on-line data collection and reporting system is second to none…anywhere.

The Learning Bar (TLB) was recently awarded the 2014 Innovative Exporter of the Year award for using leading-edge marketing techniques to achieve commercial success across Canada and internationally. TLB’s success draws from an ongoing commitment to advance educational research worldwide, and the development of marketing approaches and software technologies that profoundly adapt to the diverse realities of individual countries and regions.

The Rewards
We are committed to providing our employees with a good home/work life balance. We have a respectful, collaborative team environment with a group of dedicated and talented individuals committed to the success of our products. In return for your experience and expertise, you will receive a competitive salary, professional development, group health benefits and participation in an employee profit-sharing plan. You will also have the satisfaction of knowing that the work you are doing contributes to improving student outcomes.

Job Description
In this position, you will join The Learning Bar’s growing team to work on the development and maintenance of new and existing web applications. We need a talented candidate who is up for the task!

Duties:

Design, code, document, test, debug and deploy web applications
Database design, implementation and maintenance
Front-end graphical user interface design
Adhere to coding and development standards and practices as defined by the team
Mentor and supervise junior developers
Adhere to the policies and procedures of the company

Skills/Qualifications:
Our ideal candidate should have 5+ years of Java programming experience in a web application environment. Experience in UX Design would be considered an asset. A university degree in computer science is preferred but we will consider applicants with comparable education and/or experience.

Experience with the following technologies is an asset:

MySQL
Web services
Spring Framework
HTML5/Javascript/CSS
Apache / Tomcat
Hibernate
PHP
Agile development
MVC Architecture
JSP/JSTL

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate the following:

Excellent reading, written and spoken English communication
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
An interest and ability to learn and work with new technologies
Experience with modern development tools and methodologies
Ability to work in both a collaborative team or self-directed environment
History of producing high-quality work within fixed deadlines

General accountability
The candidate is accountable to the CTO of The Learning Bar.

To apply for this position, please send your resume and cover letter in confidence to Fred Yeomans, CTO at fred.yeomans@thelearningbar.com  We will treat any inquiry or resume received as confidential, and only those scheduled for an interview will be contacted.

Please quote competition number ISWAD0724-CB when applying.