Lead. IOS Games Engineer Job in Palo Alto, California Us
• Our business is expanding and we are searching for Lead/Sr. iPhone Engineers. We're looking for graduates of great engineering schools and/or self-taught computer geniuses that want to be part of something big.
• We expect you to be a self-starter and a fast learner, continually upgrading your engineering skills. We pride ourselves on not just making great products, but writing clean, professional code.
• You will be leading a team, working with a team of iOS, server, and web frontend engineers.
• You’ll be sharing your experience in a fast-paced environment, with a degree of ownership that's largely impossible at bigger companies.
• Work within our weekly process, loosely based on Scrum methodology, which includes setting goals, working towards completing them, keeping the leadership team apprised of your progress, and showing off what you’ve accomplished at week’s end.
• Design and build features in our iPhone games. This could include things to do with location, social networks, music sound, adding user-generated content, tying our client code to critical server-side functionality, as well as taking full advantage of the rich iPhone SDK API.
• Interact daily with systems used in professional software development: bug tracking, source control, etc.
• Solid, senior engineering skills directly applicable to iPhone development, including Objective-C expertise.
• Excited about working in a fast-moving, high-profile professional software development start-up environment. You’ll be writing code that will ship within weeks to millions of people.
• Experience working with and leading a team, ideally on a shipping product.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Experience with iPhone development
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Experience with iPhone development
BUSINESS UNIT OVERVIEW -- Disney Mobile, a division of the Disney Interactive Media Group, is a leading mobile gaming and entertainment network, reaching more than one out of every 3 iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. Disney branded apps, including platinum titles Disney Fairies Fly, Jelly Car 2 and Toy Story 3, bring the magic of Disney stories and characters to life in new ways on mobile devices. Disney Mobile’s Palo Alto based Tapulous studio creates top-selling music and social apps including Tap Tap Revenge, which is one of the most successful gaming franchises on the iPhone platform.
COMPANY OVERVIEW -- Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG), the interactive entertainment affiliate of The Walt Disney Company, creates immersive, connected, interactive experiences across console, online, mobile and social network platforms to entertain and inform audiences around the globe. DIMG's mission is to deliver Disney content to fans, whenever and wherever they want it, through numerous interactive media platforms.
Disney Interactive Media Group operates five global product groups: Disney Interactive Studios produces console and handheld video games for the Nintendo Wii™, Nintendo DS™, PlayStation®Portable, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment systems, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, and the personal computer; Disney Online produces Disney.com and a portfolio of leading lifestyle websites for families, including Family.com; Disney Online Studios develops online virtual worlds, providing connected game-play experiences for children around the globe; Disney Mobile brings the best of Disney content to the mobile web, smart phone applications, and mobile games; in addition, DIMG manages a Disney-branded mobile phone service in Japan in association with Softbank; and Playdom produces best-in-class content for the rapidly growing platform of casual games on emerging platforms and social networks such as Facebook and MySpace.
All five product groups work together to create a variety of connected, multi-platform entertainment experiences.
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