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Mobile Applications Engineer #123-13

Location:Saint Paul, MN
Salary Range:$71,525 - $107,287
Exempt/Non-Exempt:Exempt
Benefits:Yes
Employment Type:Full Time
Business Group:American Public Media
Description:Position Summary:

The Mobile Applications Engineer will act as the Lead engineer for all Mobile Applications development at American Public Media (APM). The Mobile Applications Engineer will be a member of the Software Applications Group and will support and monitor all mobile development at all APM development locations.

S/he will be involved in the development, testing, deployment, and support of software applications. This position will not have any direct reports but will be responsible for the development of mobile applications across multiple divisions through mentoring, monitoring and directing the development of other web/applications developers. S/he will also be responsible for personally developing and maintaining specific mobile applications as directed by the Director of Software Applications. S/he will be required to work in both a team/paired-programming scenario as well as a solo environment.

Position Responsibility:

• Provide technical leadership through mentoring, support and monitoring of all mobile development at all APM development locations.
• Develop and maintain specific leading Mobile Applications and tools for Regional and National properties and initiatives.
• Ensure that department methodologies, policies, and procedures are followed on all assigned Projects.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Journalism, Digital Media or similar field
• 2 years mobile app development experience and 5-6 years in a software development role. Experience to include the following:
• Experience in Object Oriented analysis and design
• Experience developing world class applications for iOS - iPhone and iPad
• Design and development of iOS CocoaTouch applications using XCode via the Objective-C, C, and C++ languages
• Apple AppStore guidelines, including the submission, review, and distribution process
• Experience developing world class applications for Android devices
• Design and development of Java applications
• Experience publishing to Android Market

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal, planning, and organizational skills
• Knowledge through prior development of apps that use Apple audio services for Internet streaming
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate, both in written and oral form
• Knowledge of Information Technology tools and Information Systems development and diagnostic methodologies and best practices
• Strong knowledge of RDBMS preferably MySQL, SQL scripting, and ERD data modeling
• Knowledge of version control systems SVN and Git
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Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience with both waterfall and agile development methodologies
• Salesforce platform experience
• Working Knowledge of Drupal
• Experience coding in Java and related technologies
• Strong Experience with PHP, Ruby, Python, MySQL and Perl
• Experience with HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery Experience deploying and supporting LAMP stack
• Working knowledge of UNIX, OSX, Microsoft Windows Operating System
• Experience with Local and Wide Area Networked environments

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:

• Must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without reasonable accommodation
• Physical Demands:
o Required to move about in an office environment and sit for extended periods of time
o Frequent use of hands for data entry/keystrokes and simple grasping.
• Working Conditions:
o Moderate noise level
o Occasional exposure to prevalent weather conditions.


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