Principal/ Senior Mobile Developer

Principal/ Sr Mobile Developer- iOS/Android
$130000 - $150000 / year


About the Company
We're Arcules: an innovative, bold member of the Canon family. We move fast, operate on trust, and value our employees. Our engineering team is passionate about what they do at work and play. So come as you are, and join us on this path to transform video into intelligence with cloud-native development and bleeding-edge technologies. Let's grow together.
Arcules offers excellent benefits, including top-tier PPO and HMO medical plans, four weeks of vacation, three weeks of sick leave and a 401(k) plan after three months of employment (4% company match).


Overview of the Job
We are looking for a Principal / Sr Mobile Developer - iOS/Android with a passion and expertise for iOS and Android systems. This role will be the expert senior resource covering mobile engineering functions across multiple teams and ensure that the Arcules solution will have a modern, elegant and awesome user experience while keeping the technical solution scalable, maintainable and reliable. This person will also lead and mentor mobile engineers, consult and collaborate with other principal engineers to influence or drive mobile technical and architectural decisions and roadmap


Responsibilities

 
The job requires leadership skills (5%), to evangelize core competencies and establish mobile app best practices within the company. The job also requires strong development skills (95%) to engineer the mobile video applications using a cloud-based and device-based infrastructure.
 
Design and build advanced applications for iOS/Swift and Android/Kotlin
 
Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability.
 
Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
 
Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
 
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new features.
 
Leverage best practices to create highly optimized, scalable and reusable code.
 
Ensure that the experience on mobile is mobile first - designed to exploit the strengths of mobile platforms. Keeping the iOS experience true to iOS and the Android experience true to Android.
 
Develop prototypes to communicate interaction and design ideas.
 
Investigate state-of-the-art technologies in mobile technologies. Determine their possible use in high-quality automatic video surveillance scenarios.



Minimum Qualifications

 
Must have NATIVE app development expertise in Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android (both from 3 years)
 
Must have experience with iOS Application development in an Enterprise SaaS environment with a strong understanding of microservices architectures, patterns and practices (preferably working with backend using Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud platform)
 
Must have experience with HTTP protocol, REST, WebSocket, SSE and other web technologies
 
Experience with the nuances of delivering an engaging, user experience in the mobile environment.
 
Crash and performance testing experience
 
B.S. in computer engineering or science with software development experience with a track record delivering technically complex enterprise services
 
Experience building and deploying mobile technology and corresponding infrastructure components and building blocks
 
Experience with public cloud services



Skills/Training Desired

 
Excellent communication & strong leadership skills
 
Strong operational execution with ability to build and manage strong cross-group relationships; ability to collaborate with others
 
Self-motivated and driven researcher or software engineer who takes pride in delivering high-quality work
 
Ability to multitask, solve problems of moderate scope, exercise latitude in determining technical objectives of assignments
 
Curious and with a desire to maintain and extend broad technical knowledge while understanding the importance of creating high customer value
 
Agile oriented in approach to engineering, including being comfortable with ambiguity in a flat organization.
 
Believe in a quick improvement approach: fail fast, learn fast, improve fast - if it works, keep it, otherwise dump it
 
Design and build advanced applications for the Android (Java) platform is nice to have
 
Video Streaming/Processing is nice to have
 
Believe in documentation when and where needed, not always and not never