| Location: | Cambridge, MA, US | Posted Date: | 2013-12-17 00:00:00.0 |
| Cost Center: | 283 | Category: | Mobile |
| ID: | 9429 |
Overview:
About the Job
An Akamai Principal Systems Software Engineer designs new customer-oriented products and features and is responsible for leading the end-to-end design of the product.
This position is for a highly experienced mobile device developer with experience either in IOS or Android development. The successful candidate will ideally have a solid understanding of networking and media delivery to handsets. A significant portion of a candidate’s success will be measured by her/his ability to rapidly prototype her/his/others concepts and design, and to do so in a fashion such that these prototype efforts can be efficiently productized.
Excellent communication skills will be necessary in order to clearly communicate expectations with respect to prototyping and product design goals and progress against those goals. Similarly, the successful candidate will be communicating with other groups across Akamai which will be supplying support for architectural integration as well modification of existing functionality.
About Emerging Mobile Products Unit
The team is focused on developing new, innovative products that leverage Akamai’s unique visibility into Internet traffic and its highly distributed cloud platform. You will be working on developing new and groundbreaking mobile and Big Data products with global impact.
Responsibilities:
* Architect and develop robust and valuable product solutions on mobile devices such as Android or Apple devices (e.g., android phones, iPhones, iPads, etc.)
* Lead design and development prototype novel handset applications using cached content delivery.
* Leverage a commanding knowledge of customer business challenges including UX/UI concerns to ensure products are designed to meet their needs.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications
* 5+ years of experience with iOS or Android app development experience delivering multimedia to mobile devices
* 5+ years of prior demonstrable experience at the systems level architect level ideally with experience in mobile, cellular, big data, highly distributed communication systems
* Coder/hacker capable of rapidly pumping out prototypes with 10+ years’ experience in Java, C, C++, html, etc.
* 10+ years of experience in software development
Desired Qualifications
* Exceptional written and verbal technical and interpersonal communications skills with demonstrable depth of experience in communicating with internal groups such including Product Management, Services, and Operations.
* Understands the difference between a prototype and a product and needs to be able to rapidly transition to productization when the time is right.
* Knowledge of networking and multimedia presentation over networks such as 3G/4G/LTE and WIFI, networks
* Deep knowledge of apple OS devices development ideally with underlying knowledge of general
networking.
Other Information
* Is relocation available for this position: Yes
* Is US Citizenship required: No
* Is a Security Clearance Required: No
If yes, applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation & must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
About Akamai:
Akamai® is the leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere. At the core of the company’s solutions is the Akamai Intelligent PlatformTM providing extensive reach, coupled with unmatched reliability, security, visibility and expertise. Akamai removes the complexities of connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and enabling enterprises to securely leverage the cloud. To learn more about how Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation in a hyperconnected world, please visit www.akamai.com and follow @Akamai on Twitter.
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