Principal Engineer II, SW (IOS)

HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

A Career at HARMAN

We are ONE HARMAN. We are greater than the sum of our divisions or brands. We proudly talk about our many iconic brands and describe how our technologies are transforming the car, the workplace and everywhere in between.  We work hard. We create useful, playful, beautiful things. We strive for excellence and we aim to win as a team. No matter the position, every employee at HARMAN is expected to demonstrate our core competencies:  leadership, change-orientation, collaboration, judgment and a results-driven mindset.  At HARMAN, we expect brilliance.  You can expect a career full of brilliant possibilities. 

Position Summary:  

This position is for a Principle Software Engineer with 10+ years of mobile apps experience. The position requires a self-motivated individual with a strong desire to succeed/excel whose main responsibility is designing and developing mobile apps products. As a Principle Software Engineer the candidate is expected to take a leading role in architecture design and get involved in daily development activities.  Other responsibilities include following company processes and procedures for firmware development and working closely in a team environment. This individual should have a strong, positive attitude and the ability to easily multitask and provide advice/support to other engineers. They should also possess strong verbal and written communication skills.

Job Responsibilities:  

• Provide technical leadership in end to end design, development, and testing of mobile apps.
• Work with technical leads, managers and product stakeholders to define and manage the technical roadmap.
• Prepare and present potential technical solutions and advise the business on approach and tradeoffs.
• Work with developers, business analysts and subject matter experts to understand the complex technological system in order to produce integrated end-to-end solution options.
• Communicate solution approaches to enterprise architects, project team and other stakeholders.
• Keep up-to-date on cutting edge technologies and effectively incorporate that knowledge to our platform roadmap, design and implementation.
• Define the technical requirements for the implementation of the mobile apps solution.
• Preparing technical solutions and architecture documents, artifacts, work products and presentations for the customer.

Basic Qualifications:  

• Bachelor degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering. Master degree is preferred.
• 10+ years of mobile application software development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience building consumer facing mobile NATIVE and HYBRID solutions for iOS.
• A thorough understanding of iOS, architecture, OOP, design patterns, and experience in mobile application integration.
• Excellent skills of Objective-C, Swift; and expert in XCode.
• Deep knowledge of scalability, security and maintainability of high volume mobile applications.
• Experience with mobile analytics.
• Expert in SVN, Git CLI / Tools.
• Knowledge with SOAP, RESTful WS and JSON, XML.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment to meet project deadlines, and a strong desire to excel in an environment with high-quality engineers.
• Strong consciousness of product quality and improvement.
• Experience overseeing team members.
   

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.