Rust Job: Senior XML Developer

Precision Content Authoring Solutions Inc. requires an experienced general-purpose senior XML developer with an orientation toward driving quality through consistent processes. You will own parts of multiple client solutions; your input about process and design will be encouraged.

What you’ll be doing

• Anything and everything using XSLT, such as:
  • template processing
  • exploiting the type model
  • functions and named templates, which and when
  • sequences and all their operators.
• Using XQuery to render a large mass of unfamiliar XML legible.
• Making the DITA Open Toolkit do something new.
• Delivering modern dynamic or cloud-based web content.
• Automating your solutions.
• Integrating your solutions with existing product installations.
• Documenting your work.
• Maintaining your client focus.
• Operating in a balance between appropriate social pleasantry and relentless goal-directed achievement.

Required qualifications

• A minimum of five years of experience in a similar developer role.
• Enjoy and understand the XML data model.
• Full grasp of web services (SOAP, REST, multi-tier cloud architectures, etc.).
• Experience with modern web page technologies such as CSS and lots of technologies starting with J, i.e., JavaScript, json, jstore, jquery and others.
• Mastery of XML and all related technologies starting with X, i.e., XPath, XPointer, XQuery, XSLT, and XSL-FO.
• Experience with DITA: architecture, writing experience, CCMS experience, and publishing from DITA to a variety of formats.
• Comfortable with text manipulation (encodings, regular expressions, regularization of SGML).
• Comfortable with general-purpose imperative scripting languages like bash, perl, or python for general automation.
• Comfortable with a general-purpose imperative system language (Java, C#, Python, Rust, Go, ....) for building tools and infrastructure.
• Demonstrate comprehension of the XML data model.
• Demonstrate comprehension of the XSD type model.
• Correctly explain the distinction between a code point, a glyph, and an encoding.

Preferred qualifications

• Have best-practice habits when delivering work in a distributed development environment.
• Are objective driven; you will seek clarity concerning the objective and intelligently pursue it regarding its context. (This client, these other clients, business plans, company goals).
• Have prior exposure to a diversity of environments and an ability to work with local values of "the right way."
• Skilled with scripting languages, system languages, web services, client-facing interactions, and oXygen.

What's in it for you:

• Competitive guaranteed base salary.
• Group benefits plan (medical, dental, vision, life and disability).
• Flexible work schedule.
• A positive work environment and evolving work culture, which celebrates our people’s success.
• Company events, such as lunches, dinners, holiday parties and more.

You have these skills

• Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)
• XML
• Publishing
• Python (Programming Language)
• Web Content Writing
• XSLT
• C#
• jQuery
• Web Services