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Software Engineer / Architect

Webalo, an early stage software company headquartered in Los Angeles CA, is seeking OUTSTANDING Java Software Engineers / Architects to work with our world-class team in the ongoing development of its cloud-based enterprise mobility service. Webalo’s service makes it exceptionally easy for users to interact with enterprise applications and data from their mobile devices, and for corporate IT departments to deploy applications and data to their mobile user communities.

This challenging position involves both architecture and hands-on coding of both client and server software in Java, XML, and other assorted languages (C#, C, C++, Objective C, Python, ECMAScript/ActionScript, etc.).

Opportunity Highlights:

  • Intellectually stimulating opportunity to create revolutionary software
  • Enterprise mobility market
    • Massive, rapidly growing, rapidly evolving
    • No incumbent “standard” – opportunity for dominance
  • World-class team
  • Highly differentiated technology and product positioned to transform market
    • Scalable cloud-based self-service model
    • Infrastructural solution to enterprise mobility
      (rather than traditional professional-services-centric approach)
  • At pivotal moment for product and company
    • Bringing new cloud-based offering to market
    • Meeting consumer-driven-expectations inside the enterprise
      (rather than traditional professional-services-centric approach)
  • Today’s most exciting technologies
    • Innovative user interaction design, for both mobile UI and self-service IT
    • Native mobile app (3D, etc.) through cross-platform development
      (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, RIM, etc.)
    • Distributed computing in Amazon EC2
    • Virtualization infrastructure inside the enterprise

Requirements

  • BS in CS, equivalent, or better
  • Mastery of fundamental software engineering skills (you know the difference between quicksort and bubblesort, what a directed acyclic graph is, how to avoid deadlocked threads, etc.) 
  • Outstanding reasoning and problem-solving skills (you know what a mathematical proof is and you understand the concept of “divide and conquer” as applied to problem solving) 
  • Java, XML, and object oriented design expertise
  • Experience with fundamental networking standards (e.​g.​ HTTP, XML, TCP/​IP)
  • Attention to detail (see how to apply, above)

Nice to have:

  • Advanced degree
  • "Larval stage" hacking experience followed by formal CS education
  • Significant experience with XML Web services technology (SOAP, WSDL, XSD, etc.​)
  • Experience with J2EE and open source technologies (Ant, JBoss, Axis, etc.​)
  • Demonstrated versatility, multi-platform experience (server & client, UNIX, Win32, mobile device platforms, Amazon AWS, Haskell or other functional languages)

Apply today:

If this interests you, and you meet the requirements below, please send an e-mail to Jeannie Jones at opportunity@webalo.com. Please include your resume in ASCII or PDF format -- no other attachments or formats please.​ Include the string, "*****", (five asterisks) in the subject of your e-mail so we know you took the time to read these requirements.​ For best results, please begin your e-mail by pointing out what makes you particularly well suited for this position.