Starting immediately, we are looking for talented iOS engineers to join the Flickr Mobile Engineering team.
Love Objective-C and developing native code for Apple's iOS devices? Thrive in a highly-interactive and iterative development environment? Want to help create the future of Flickr's mobile apps? Then we want to talk to you.
We have a track record of innovation to build on and a strong desire to radically improve Flickr, both for new users and casual visitors as well as the power users who form the core of the community. There's a tremendously long list of new features, programs and technologies set to come online this year. If you've ever wanted to a chance to have a big impact (Flickr has 75+ million users and 7+ billion photos), this is it.
Attributes of successful candidates will include:
Expertise with Obj-C and Xcode
Thorough and recent experience developing for iOS
Familarity with submitting to the App Store
Current and detailed knowledge of the capabilities of iOS 5
Knowledge of iOS 6's upcoming features and changes
Experience developing highly performant code
A disciplined approach to development, documentation and file structure
Strong visual design sense and excellent taste
A constant desire to improve , learn more and take things higher
Responsibilities of the position will include:
Developing iPhone or iPad apps from scratch, using data provided by the Flickr API
Maintaining the current iPhone app and debugging problems that come up
Working in a tightly-knit team with backend engineering, frontend engineering, product management, design, and community/customer care
Contributing to the continual improvement of our design and development process
You should have:
Strong compsci fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages and information retrieval
An excellent understanding of networking, mobile network issues, concurrency and threading
Good experience with making apps feel fast (not just act fast)
Bonus:
Experience with Flickr and online photo sharing (send us a link to your photostream!)
Academic background in engineering, computer science, math, physics or other science.
