Moving the business beyond just maps and directions, MapQuest is
looking to transform itself and retake its rightful place as an
industry leader in local discovery and travel. In order to finish
the transformation to a fast-paced innovation machine, MapQuest
is looking to grow and expand the mobile engineering group with
the addition of a Senior Software Mobile Engineer.
About us:
We love to invent experiences that surprise and delight our
customers as we help them along their daily travels. We solve
interesting, real-world challenges in geospatial, navigation,
travel, local search, advertising, LBS, and micro-transactions on
all the major mobile device platforms of every form-factor. We
work as a team grow as a team, and succeed as a team.
About you:
You're an engineer looking for a career where you'll be able to
build, to deliver, and to impress. You are passionate about
mobile computing and want to disrupt the world of application
development on mobile devices. You want to build rich customer
experiences, utilizing to the fullest possible extent all the
cool hardware on the device. You want to work on projects that
require creative thinking and deep understanding of the problem
space. You challenge yourself and others to constantly come up
with better solutions. You're a thought leader, but you don't
just know how to solve the problem, you prove it by building the
solution. Last but not the least; you have a high bar for code
quality and passion for design and architecture.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics, or
Electrical Engineering
- 5+ years professional experience in software development
- 3+ experience building complex mobile applications on
Android , iOS, or Windows Phone platforms that have been
successfully delivered to customers
- Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals –
object oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design,
problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Proficiency in at least one modern object oriented
language such as Objective-C, Java or C#
- Proven track record of delivery
- Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices
for the full software development life cycle including coding
standards, code reviews, source control management, build
processes, testing, and operations
Preferred Qualifications
- 7+ years of industry experience
- Experience delivering low-latency,
consumer-internet-scale web services operating in a 24x7
environment
- Experience with Agile (SCRUM, Kanban, XP), OO modeling,
web services, UNIX, middleware and databases
- Experience mentoring and training the engineering
community on complex technical issues
If interested please send resume to lalitha.ganesan@teamaol.com
