SOFTWARE ENGINEER, MAC

The Brief

About Skype

Skype is software that enables the world's conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Everyday, people everywhere also use Skype to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles. Download Skype to your computer or mobile phone at skype.com

The Business Specific brief

The Skype for Mac product has millions of users around the world and it is one of the most popular Mac applications. We are expanding our team and looking for talented developers who have passion to deliver high-quality modern communication software on Mac OS X platform.

You will report to the Mac Product Engineering Manager and be an integral part of the team, developing and maintaining the Skype for Mac product. We are considering both senior and junior developers.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop new features.
• Improve and maintain existing features.
• Pro-actively optimize overall performance of the application.
• Create unit tests for the software components that you build.
• Actively participate in discussions about product features, provide technical point of view and development estimates.

Candidate Profile

Pre-requisite Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• 3 years of software development experience.
• Experience in multithreaded programming, asynchronous and event driven application design.
• Should be well disciplined in the application development processes of requirements analysis, functional spec development, prototyping, implementation, testing, documentation and maintenance.
• Knowledge of Objective-C and Cocoa is a plus, but not required.

Behaviours

• Must be self-motivated and able to work well in a team environment.
• Goal-oriented and focused to get things done on time.
• Demonstrate creative and critical thinking capabilities and able to pay attention to details.
• Continuously keeping eye on the latest cutting edge technologies and leveraging these in your work as necessary.

Qualifications

• Ideally a BSc degree in Computer Science or similar discipline.

Location: Tallinn, Estonia, Stockholm, Sweden, or Brisbane, CA, USA

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