CORE TECHNOLOGY SR. SOFTWARE / LEAD / STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER

MobiTV is the first global television network that delivers live television programming and on-demand multi-media content to mobile phones. Launched in November 2003 and available to Sprint PCS, Cingular/AT&T Wireless and Midwest Wireless subscribers, MobiTV is one of the fastest-selling, highest revenue products being sold today for cell phones with over 1 million subscribers. By developing relationships with major content partners, wireless network operators, and a proprietary technology that efficiently bridges both wired and wireless networks, MobiTV has positioned itself as a key player in the delivery and advancement of products and infrastructure technologies to wireless network operators today. We are looking for energetic people to help us develop, launch, and service new products based on our exciting new technology. Our goal is to reach the 2 billion handsets available in the global market today.

Based in Emeryville, we offer a rewarding, fast-paced team environment with strong opportunities for professional development. We seek entrepreneurs with passion for providing best-in-class products and services to our operators. Our team impacts millions of people and tackle challenging projects alongside fun, talented and creative colleagues.

Job Summary

We are looking for experience engineers with proven experience and expertise in developing common infrastructure used to build and deliver a variety of related applications. The supporting framework/infrastructure is expected to provide a very rich end user experience and extensive configurability at the administration and end user level.

Team members will be responsible for creating MobiTV?s next generation framework/infrastructure using the latest technology to ensure the delivery of leading application functionality including interactivity, advertising and able to cover a very broad set of mobile handsets. The platform must support rich applications running in highly constrained devices such as handsets, with a rich graphical user interface and rich feature set.

Job Responsibilities

Design product features and write high level and detailed design documents for framework level components. This framework will be used as the building block to create a variety of MobiTV applications.

Very closely interface with application teams to ensure that the platform satisfy the applications requirements and timelines

Actively participate in and contribute to product design and/or product feature discussions and/or meetings within Engineering and other groups

Work closely with the rest of the team to ensure proper architecture decisions are reached in ensuring adequate handset and server coordination activities.

Develop algorithms that are efficient, maintainable, extensible, easy to understand, and according to best development practices.

Work closely with QA team to help define proper testing techniques and plans, correct product defects and assist QA engineers in some types of testing.

Assist the Deployment, Operations, and Sales teams with the investigation and resolution of customer issues

Work closely with technical writers to ensure detailed product documents are maintained

Implement best engineering practices to make MobiTV a best in class engineering organization

Qualifications

Excellent technical background in Web and Wap technologies

5+ years Java programming background on J2EE/J2ME and experience in the full software development cycle building framework/core components

Thorough knowledge of Web technologies and architectures including Web servers, Application servers, browsers and HTML/DHTML/xHTML/CSS/JavaScript/JSP/Java Servlets, Struts, Java Server Faces.

Strong knowledge of mobile and multimedia technologies

Understanding and appreciation for very high quality code and associated best practices such as code reviews, JavaDoc, JUint, proper logging, instrumentation, regression suites, etc.

Experience and interest in agile development methodologies

Experience programming highly robust, scalable platforms is required

Experience in building J2EE Enterprise/e-Commerce Server Infrastructure

Experience in tuning Web applications for performance and scalability

Understanding and experience with SOA is a strong plus

Experience with networking protocols such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SOAP is a plus

Must have been a core member of a highly successful product development team major architectural and programming contributions

Experienced as a team leader with strong technical, leadership and interpersonal skills desirable

Solid communication skills, creative problem solving skills and attention to detail

Strong time-management and independent-judgment skills required

Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills. Must be enthusiastic and work well with others

Please send resume and cover letter to: audition@mobitv.com