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Job Title: iOS Engineer
Job location: Palo Alto, CA
Employer: Flipboard
Employment Type: Full-Time Job
Job Description
Headed by Mike McCue, former CEO of Tellme, and Evan Doll, former Senior iPhone Engineer at Apple, Flipboard is on a quest to transform how people discover, view and share content by combining the beauty and ease of print with the power of social media.
Flipboard has raised $60.5 million from legendary investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer, Index Ventures, and Insight Venture Partners as well as media innovators including Jack Dorsey co-founder of Twitter, Dustin Moskovitz co-founder of Facebook, Ashton Kutcher, and The Chernin Group.
iOS Engineer | Responsibilities:
- Building iPhone/iPad apps with UIKit and Foundation
- Performance and memory tuning with Instruments and Shark
- Using gdb to diagnose and squash bugs
- Integrating with web services
- Writing clean, maintainable code while rapidly iterating and shipping
iOS Engineer | Preferred:
- Using Core Animation to create eye-popping effects and interfaces
- Multithreading, NSOperationQueue and Blocks/GCD
Why join Flipboard?
- Team-up with cutting-edge thought leaders from Apple, Google, Netflix, Adobe, Ellerdale, Sony, Ning, Tellme, and Microsoft, Time Inc. & Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia to help grow the world’s first social magazine across multiple platforms.
- CEO, Mike McCue is a successful entrepreneur founding companies such as Paper Software (acquired by Netscape) and Tellme Networks (acquired by Microsoft), all delivering high-level valuations.
- Exciting and collaborative team working with a strong purpose and vision. Mockup Monday lunches held each week serve as a forum for team members to demo new ideas and projects.
- Pick your equipment: we provide your choice of Apple computers, screens, iPad’s, and peripherals along with Bose Active Noise Canceling Headsets!
- Flipboard’s HQ is an open, beautifully converted art studio centrally located in the heart of downtown Palo Alto.
- Compensation including base, equity, plus generous, comprehensive benefits (details below)
Benefits & perks
- 401(k) with company contribution
- Vision, dental, life, and health insurance
- Paid time off- holidays, vacation, and sick leave
- Flexible hours
- Subsidized gym and commuter programs
- Beer Fridays: casual team & friend meet-ups at Flipboard HQ
- Team celebrations: company anniversaries, birthdays, thanksgiving, weddings/babies – you name it, we celebrate it.
- Flipboard Sports- Basketball team, certified rock climbers, biking, or anything you’d like to organize.
- Lots of snacks (healthy and otherwise)
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