Mobile Applications Developer - iPhone

Mobile Applications Developer - iPhone

Responsibilities
This person will be responsible for engineering and developing compelling mobile applications for iPhone and iTouch devices. He/she will work closely with the Project Managers/Solutions Architects and designers to conceptualize and create interactive mobile applications in a fast paced startup environment. He or she should be proficient in techniques and technologies for creating high powered interactive mobile applications for the Apple iPhone platform.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Design and develop top of the line mobile applications for the iPhone and other mobile platforms (Android/J2ME).
• Create a compelling/world class look for the applications working closely with designers and helping identify and define the UI/graphics needs.
• Design efficient, adaptable, and reusable code.
• Tuning components for high performance and scalability using techniques such as caching, code optimization, and efficient memory management.
• Organize input and feedback from multiple stakeholders to improve usability and functionality.

Qualifications
Mandatory

• BTech/CS/MCA degree with 2+ years of software product development experience.
• 1+ years developing cutting edge mobile iPhone and J2ME applications.
• Strong design and development experience with C and C++. Strong prior experience with Objective C is mandatory.
• Proficient with the XCode Interface Builder, iPhone SDK and Cocoa framework.
• Working knowledge of one or more RDBMS. SQLite knowledge is a big plus.
• Strong debugging and trouble shooting skills and prior experience with performance measurement tools.
• Experience with XML/JSON and data manipulation/extraction using parsers.
• Strong debugging and trouble shooting skills and prior experience with performance measurement tools.
• Outstanding communication and documentation skills, detail oriented and go-getting attitude.
• Experience in full life cycle software development including design, development, production, testing, roll out, maintenance and support.
• Ability to work independently in a fast paced startup environment with dynamically changing requirements.
• Outstanding communication and documentation skills, detail oriented and go-getting attitude.

Desirable

• Knowledge of information search retrieval, index creation and algorithms is strongly desired
• Demonstrated knowledge with wireless and standard internet protocols and standards.
• Practical product experience with one of more graphics libraries (Open GL) and animation effects is a big plus.
• UI and visual conceptualization experience – being able to define UI needs is a major plus.
• Experience in Java, J2EE, web programming using HTML, CSS and Javascript and knowledge of Webservices is a big plus.

Please submit your resume to careers@apostek.com.