Staff Engineer - Mobile Apps SDK Development

The position is responsible for planning, designing, development and delivery of a disruptive consumer application and SDK for App developers using native capabilities of iOS and Android. This is a hand-on technical role and requires knowledge in iOS and/or Android media stack to develop audio/video capture, playback and streaming libraries. The position demands a candidate capable of doing quality work against technical and schedule challenges, following strong software design and process principles.

Essential Job Functions:

• Plan, design, develop and deliver iOS and/or Android native audio-video capture, playback and streaming applications and libraries;
• Lead and contribute in high quality SDK architecture definition;
• Lead and contribute towards software design, code and bug reviews;
• Serve as a Mobile SDK development expert in project scrum team to evangelise and follow industry best software development processes;
• Serve as a technical lead, mentor and guide for junior members in project team;
• Establish and breakdown software design requirements and performance goals of SDK’s;
• Collaborate with audio engineers and QA engineers to establish requirements and ship high quality SDK’s;
• Anticipate and mitigate potential issues and risks in a project;
• Document requirements, software manuals and test procedures in collaboration with scrum team
• Applies software engineering design patterns to develop well-structured application code;
• Make informed technical decisions, considering all aspects of the problem;
• Efficiently handle ambiguity and multiple competing priorities at work;
• Update job knowledge by studying trends and developments in rapidly changing cloud technologies landscape;
• Effectively employ written and verbal communications to collaborate with business ownership, product management, engineering and user experience team members to achieve project goals.

Requirements:

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable field;
• 8+ years' solid commercial experience developing native iOS and/or Android apps
• Professional experience using iOS and/or Android Media frameworks
• Professional experience using Xcode and Android Studio, programming in Swift, Java, Kotlin, C/C++;
• Experience in using JSON and REST-based API’s for mobile applications;
• Experience using iOS/Android Design Patterns Eg. Clean Architecture;
• Experience developing automated tests for iOS and/or Android apps;
• Ability to own and lead development projects in an Agile Environment;
• Ability to understand and contribute to SDK product needs and requirements;
• Good verbal communication in both general and technology-specific applications

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