Lead Mobile Software Engineer - Palo Alto or Glendale, CA

Job Title: Lead Mobile Software Engineer
Location: Palo Alto (94306) or Glendale, CA (91201)
Position Type: Contract
Rate: DOE (W2/1099/C2C)

Job Duties

• Help lead our engineering team focusing on mobile technologies, experiences, monetization and new technologies.
• Design, architect, and implement key frameworks and systems that enhance our mobile applications and ecommerce experiences.
• Collaborate with mobile developers to deliver experiences that delight our guests.
• Resolve defects, support testing effort, and deploy production code on a frequent basis.
• Help recruit, interview, and onboard new talent as the team grows
• Be a technical pillar for the engineering team through collaboration and mentorship of other engineers.
• Analyze the technical feasibility of product features and help to guide feature development and roadmap from a technical perspective.
• Help to coordinate and estimate sprint tasks for engineering, working with the cross-functional team including product, program management, and QA, design. Potentially, depending on interest and capabilities, formally lead other engineers.

Required Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience required
• 7-10+ years of full software development lifecycle experience.
• 7-10+ years of progressively more complex professional experience, with experience as an Architect or Lead Software Engineer
• Experience designing and developing Server Side applications running on Linux / Java / Node.js, and mobile applications on iOS and Android.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Excellent and deep understanding of design patterns and modern, highly scalable application development.
• Organized, detail-oriented and able to deliver projects on time.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Highly motivated, self-starting individual

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building use case driven software with Agile Software Development and Test Driven Development methodologies
• Masters' degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with Google App Engine in a Java / Python production environment.
• Mobile game development systems, such as Unity3D.

Required Education

• BS/BA degree in Computer Science, etc, MS preferred
• Additional Information Experience successfully leading project and project team of at least 2-5 people.
• Engineering management with technical oversight.
• Must have backend or mobile background.
• Must have strong iOS OR Android and exposure to the other.
• Can be Glendale or Palo Alto location.