Monday, November 22, 2010

Serious data driven iPhone/iPad development opportunities, global media conglomerate, perm, NYC


*This firm offers complete relocation from anywhere in the US or abroad but you must have at least a transferrable H1B visa with at least 2 years left on it, they do not sponsor new H1Bs.

Our client is a global media company staying ahead of their competition through a combination of more advanced technology, extraordinary software talent, and a greater focus on their core market than the competition can muster. This company has grown every year for decades, offers world class benefits (4 weeks vacation to start, free health insurance for your whole family, etc.,) comp, facilities, and tools to advanced software talent. The environment is a mashup of the financial resources of an investment bank with the product orientation of Apple. This is an extremely high volume and high performance transactional environment. We are looking for senior developers from serious industry backgrounds like networking, telecom, or other demanding software environments. The company sells data and processing abilities to other firms. This team develops internal tools with Microsoft Server and back office systems. Software performance is always the number one priority.

The company has been involved in mobile development for 10 years, delivering some of the most feature-rich apps for the Blackberry. Now they are moving from developing internal apps for internal users to mobile apps for their customers. There are at least two positions open in iPhone/iPad development. This group develops innovative mobile applications to supplement their website. They have 1.5 million unique visitors per day. This is a new team they are putting together in order to deliver more functionality to the end user. Example projects are TV on the iPad-they are archiving video in order to allow you to search for videos on one person or event or company right from your device. Similar functionality as the YouTube mobile app. Another project is setting market related SMS alerts. The system will SMS the user if a certain stock or security hits a certain value.

Requirements-It is critical that candidates have both server-side experience and device experience. This position is to develop the back end system delivering the services as well as the device side software. The interviews will be heavy on questions about data structures, algorithms, multithreading, networking, and UNIX. Language skills sought are Obj-C obviously, facility with C++ for the server side work.

If this sounds like something you want to learn more about please email me at davef at coresearchinc.com.

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