Software Development Engineer - Test - Details

Your Mission........

As an TestSoftware Engineer, you will be a member of our automation team, dedicated to Zinio's test automation implementation on multiple platforms. Use your automation tools coding expertise to help achieve a high percentage automation of Zinio's manual regression test cases. Work with QA team members and software developers to trouble-shoot test failures in the various test environments. Initially you will be contributing Java code for automated Web application testing, utilizing the Seleniun API. There is a possibility to expand you automation work to other mobile platforms, such as Android and iOS.

Experience/Skills Required...

• Strong Java or Objective C development skills and knowledge of mobile application architecture
• Working knowledge of Javascript for iOS automation or experience developing automated solutions for  iOS
• Experience with Mobile automation open source tools such as Robotium etc.
• Knowledge of database fundamentals
• Comprehensive working knowledge of Linux/iOS/Android platform.
• Ability to debug and research issues related to iOS/Android platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must have a passion for reading and be knowledgeable about the latest mobile related innovations
• Experience developing iOS or Android mobile applications
• Bachelors with 5-7 years' experience.
  

Your Compensation…

Highly competitive compensation includes a strong base salary, equity & terrific benefits!
Candidates are invited to submit resumes to: jobs@zinio.com (subject: SDET203)

Architect - Details

Your Mission...

Use your expertise and leadership to keep us on the bleeding-edge of digital content distribution. We value your confidence to change processes, re-factor architecture when necessary, and overcome complex technical challenges which are crucial to Zinio's success. As our innovative mobile architect, you'll lead the creation of an exquisite customer experience through intelligent development of rich user interfaces and supporting web services. When executed well, your desire to constantly invent solutions and evolve the development process will result in increased subscriber numbers, higher revenues and an even brighter future.

Your Responsibilities...

• Lead the architecture for our mobile applications - UI layer, MVC components, rich media handling, security, and web services
• Collaborate with content platform and web platform teams to design web service interfaces
• Review code before it is integrated into the main source line
• Design and develop core application software for Zinio's mobile applications
• Code design and development using Java and XML
  

Your Profile...

You'll need an impressive (10+ years) track record of designing and delivering with OOP and Agile practices while advocating for good long-term platform architecture, along with a BSEE/BSCS and:

• Point of view on technical and architectural options, making decisions when appropriate
• Solid Mobile and SDK development experience (touch, graphics, audio/video, content providers, data storage, memory management, screen independence, and localization)
• Experience developing with Java, Web Services, XML, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and SQL
• Experience with build scripts and branch/merge best practices
• Rich media management - content streaming, video, 2D image manipulation, and PDF
• NDK development experience (JNI, libjnigraphics, libc, C/C++)
• Open GL ES experience
• HTML5/CSS3,WebGL, WebCL
• Objective-C, iOS SDK
• Have developed iOS, Android and or Win 8 Apps that we can review.

Our Technologies...

• SDLC: Agile/iterative using SCRUM
• Coding: Object-C, Java, XML, SQL, C/C++, Javascript, CSS, XHTML
• Framework: IOS, Android SDK, NDK
• Web Services: Spring, Apache Axis, Mule
• IDE: Eclipse, XCode
• Database: SQLite, Oracle, SQL Server
  

Your Compensation...

Highly competitive compensation includes a strong base salary, equity & terrific benefits!
Candidates are invited to submit resumes to: jobs@zinio.com (subject: Lead 107)

Senior Java Developer - Details

Your Mission...

We are looking for an experienced e-commerce developer to design and implementation of Zinio's global e-commerce platform. Leverage strong technical knowledge to align business needs with established and emerging technologies. Provide critical input into the technology roadmap; balance the appeal of emerging technologies with operational readiness. Serve as a mentor for junior team members in an agile environment.


Your Responsibilities...

• Design and develop integration effort between a suite of mobile (Android, iOS, Windows, Blackberry) applications, data warehousing, and other 3rd party systems.
• Have a strong technical culture that promotes software development best practices, continuous integration, code reviews, code quality and test coverage.
• Committed to the performance, scalability and reliability of a suite of web applications and services.
• Have technological passion and inspire strong technical solutions across the company.

Your Skills...

• 7+ years of work experience on international, multi-lingual e-commerce sites, experience with enterprise grade e-commerce technologies like ATG Dynamo a plus.
• Strong knowledge of web technologies such as: J2EE, Spring Framework, RESTful Web Services, Hibernate, JSON, JSP, HTML5 and SOA.
• Experience working within and establishing software deployment pipeline best practices, Maven, Jenkins/Hudson, Control Tier, Run Deck, and Sonar.
• Working knowledge search tools and frameworks, Autonomy, Lucene, SOLR.
• Ability to work in and drive an agile, iterative development process.
• Must have strong communication, organizational and multi-tasking skills.
• Ability to be a self-starter is essential. Can operate independently and professionally in an agile software development environment.

Your Compensation...

Highly competitive compensation includes a strong base salary, equity & terrific benefits!
Candidates are invited to submit resumes to: jobs@zinio.com (subject: Senior Java Developer 110)

Front End UI Engineer - Details

Your Mission...

Looking for a superstar Front End Engineer who is passionate about Front End coding and understands all aspects of the development process. This position requires extreme attention to detail and ability to work independently in a fast paced environment where change is never a surprise. If you love solving challenging problems, gravitate towards collaboration, and strive for quality, then this is the job for you.

Your Responsibilities...

• Code clean, standards-compliant cross-browser HTML5, AJAX, CSS and JavaScript.
• Turn PSDS into professionally rendered, pixel perfect deliverables.
• Update existing parts of the site using XHTML and CSS-based layouts
• Utilize the Agile development process while working with Product Managers, UX developers and management to deliver high quality projects ON TIME.
• Help create and integrate localization keys for internationalization.
• Work on multiple concurrent projects

Required Experience and Skills...

• 5+ year of professional web development with front end focus.
• Expert-level proficiency in HTML5, AJAX, JavaScript and CSS.
• Must have expert level JavaScript experience; DOM scripting; jQuery.
• Must be able to hand-code standards compliant XHTML and CSS.
• Knowledge of fluid 100% CSS layouts and/or grid systems
• Understanding of W3C standards and experience in addressing cross-browser and platform compatibility issues.
• Understanding of the web development lifecycle, including QA and release cycles
• Experience building large-scale high-performance systems
• Experience working on an enterprise level commerce site
• Excellent debugging and problem solving skills
• Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop
• Excellent communication skills

Bonus Skills

• Experience with SOA and JSON
• Experience with CSS preprocessors (LESS, SASS or Stylus)
• Ability to integrate XHTML to JSP running on ATG
• Experience with css media queries
• Experience with Mobile Webview and Webkit
• Knowledge of resource bundles and localization on an internationalized site.
• Experience using Agile
  

Your Compensation...

Highly competitive compensation includes a strong base salary, equity & terrific benefits!
Candidates are invited to submit resumes to: jobs@zinio.com (subject:UI201)

Mobile Engineer - iOS - Details

Your Mission...

In this highly strategic role, you'll incorporate our vision and requirements to architect an elegant solution for the iOS team. Your expertise and leadership are key to delivering a jaw-dropping experience for subscribers on our largest app to date. Your confidence to change processes, re-factor architecture when necessary, and overcome complex technical challenges will enable you to blaze new trails, not tried before. You'll lead the creation of an exquisite customer experience through intelligent development of rich user interfaces and supporting web services. When done well, your constant desire to innovate and create will result in increased subscriber numbers, and higher revenues for Zinio. And that's just the beginning...!

Your Responsibilities...

• Lead the development of high quality/stable code, recommend technology/process improvements
• Introduce and develop all the new features for our mobile platforms
• Influence stakeholders to reach difficult technical decisions; make buy v. build decisions
• Help build, lead and mentor a team of 5 iOS developers
• Work closely with other team leads & architects to deliver scalable mobile products
• Resolve the most complex issues - tackling technology blockers, consulting experts, researching options, weighing trade-offs

Your Profile...

• 2+ years experience developing complex native applications for iOS or Mac OS X
• Successfully released and maintained iPhone or iPad apps in the App Store
• Exposure to a broad array of technologies - desktop, mac, .net, etc.
• Experience using Core Animation to create slick animations and interfaces and multithreading a plus
• Fluency with Objective-C, with knowledge of java, C, C++
• Unbridled creative passion with superb analytical and communication skills
• Wish List - Exp with an online consumer product company, or wherever digital content is produced
• Education – BSEE / BSCS

Our Technologies...

• SDLC: Agile/iterative using Scrum
• Coding: Objective-C, XML, Javascript, CSS, HTML5
• Framework: Cocoa Touch, Core Animation, Core Data
• Web Svces: Spring, Apache Axis, Mule
• IDE: Xcode 4

Your Compensation...

Highly competitive compensation includes a strong base salary, equity & terrific benefits!
Candidates are invited to submit resumes to: jobs@zinio.com (subject: MobileIOS 110)

Mobile Engineer - Android - Details

Your Mission...

Use your expertise and leadership to keep us on the bleeding-edge of digital content distribution. We value your confidence to change processes, re-factor architecture when necessary, and overcome complex technical challenges. Help build a new team. Crucial to Zinio’s success, Android represents a significant portion of our subscriber base. As our creative and innovative architect, you’ll lead the creation of an exquisite customer experience through intelligent development of rich user interfaces and supporting web services. When executed well, your desire to constantly invent solutions and evolve the development process will result in increased subscriber numbers, higher revenues and an even brighter future for success.

Your Responsibilities...

As our ninja for all things Android, we’re counting on you to:

• Lead the implementation of our Android app - UI layer, MVC components, rich media handling, security, and web services
• Collaborate with content platform and web platform teams to design web service interfaces
• Review code before it is integrated into the main source line
• Design and develop core application software for Zinio’s Android app
• Code design and development using Java and XML

Your Profile...

You’ll need an impressive (5+ years) track record of designing and delivering with OOP and Agile practices while advocating for good long-term platform architecture, along with a BSEE/BSCS and:

• Point of view on technical and architectural options, making decisions when appropriate
• Solid Mobile and Android SDK development experience (touch, graphics, audio/video, content providers, data storage, memory management, screen independence, and localization)
• Experience developing with Java, Web Services, XML, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and SQL
• Experience with build scripts and branch/merge best practices
• Wish List – Rich media management - content streaming, video, 2D image manipulation, and PDF

­ Android NDK development experience (JNI, libjnigraphics, libc, C/C++)
­ OpenGL ES experience
­ HTML5/CSS3,WebGL, WebCL
­ Objective-C, iOS SDK
­ Win 8 Exp.

Our Technologies...

• SDLC: Agile/iterative using SCRUM
• Coding: Java, XML, SQL, C/C++, Javascript, CSS, XHTML
• Framework: Android SDK, NDK
• Web Services: Spring, Apache Axis, Mule
• IDE: Eclipse
• Database: SQLite, Oracle, SQL Server

Your Compensation...

Highly competitive compensation includes a strong base salary, equity & terrific benefits!
Candidates are invited to submit resumes to: jobs@zinio.com (subject:MOA200)

Senior Project Manager - Details

Your Mission...

We are seeking an exceptionally talented Sr. Project Manager who will effectively lead project delivery in a fast-paced, dynamic and highly technical, team centric environment that is adopting Agile practices. Your role will include creating and managing project timelines, communicating schedules and ensuring that deadlines are met. You will be charged with championing best practices, standards, quality and consistency to ensure that projects are delivered with quality on time and within targeted budgets to meet or exceed customer expectations.

Your Responsibilities...

• Respond to inquiries regarding the status of publications and resolve any customer order concerns
• Respond to account or billing questions
• Troubleshoot Zinio apps (PC/Mac/iOS/Android/Win8)
• Identify and report content problems
• Ensure a positive Zinio customer support experience
  

Your Profile...

• Perform "ScrumMaster" role for assigned scrum team(s).
• Run daily Scrum meetings with development teams(s).
• Strong organizational skills and ability to analyze various inputs to help prioritize work.
• Provide regular project status reports to stakeholders and management.
• Successful candidates for this position must have prior experience in managing large software development projects and designing and developing applications for smartphone mobile and tablet devices (such as iPhone, iPad, Android).
• Great communication and documentation skills-writing skills a plus.
• Extremely detail oriented and strong communicator required.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced start-up environment.
• Comfortable with ambiguity.
• Experience managing projects using Atlassian tools like Jira/Greenhopper etc.
• Ability to be a team player and self-starter is essential.
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.
• 5 + years of prior experience as a project manager for a web application or ecommerce company.
• 2+ years experience managing projects using Agile-Scrum methodology.
• Lead/motivate high-performance cross functional teams.

• SDLC: Agile/iterative using Scrum
• Tools: JIRA/Rally/Omniplan, MS Office, Jira

Your Compensation...

Highly competitive compensation includes a strong base salary, equity & terrific benefits!
Candidates are invited to submit resumes to: jobs@zinio.com (subject:PMO103)

Product Manager - Details

Your Mission…

Your Responsibilities…

• Develop product strategy by collaborating with executives and senior management
• Maintain a backlog with prioritized user stories and corresponding justification
• Manage stakeholder expectations by keeping them informed and evaluating new requests
• Work with third parties to assess partnership opportunities
• Run beta and pilot programs with early-stage products or prototypes
• Understanding product and consumer dynamics through product & user research
• Be an expert with respect to the competition and industry landscape
• Act as a product expert within the company
• Serve as a leader for a cross-functional product development team

Your Experience and Background…

• 2-5 years experience as a Product Manager
• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
• 1+ years of experience in a job in the market for consumer media or entertainment (mobile applications, publishing, gaming, or rich media)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor's degree and MBA, or equivalent experience
• Technical background, with experience working on web, mobile, or platform products
• Expertise and interest in Agile software development processes
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority

Your Compensation…

Highly competitive compensation includes a strong base salary, equity & terrific benefits!
Candidates are invited to submit resumes to: jobs@zinio.com (subject: Product Manager 114)