iOS / Android mobile application developer

Our current focus is English Language Learning in Japan, servicing general consumers, businesses, and educational institutions. You can try out our core service iKnow! at http://iknow.jp

We are an ambitious team of fewer than 30 people based in a cool office near Shibuya station, in Tokyo. We were founded in Japan and have strong roots here, but our team is represented by 10 nationalities and as a group, we comfortably move between English and Japanese.

To fulfill our mission to be the market leading cross-platform learning technology company, we are constantly exploring new ways to incorporate learning-science, advanced linguistics, and technology into our products and services.

Mobile learning is one the most exciting unexplored spaces in tech. We expect to see mobile devices literally transform the way we learn in the years ahead, and Cerego is positioning itself at the front of this wave. We have popular iPhone and Android apps out that automatically synch up with the PC service, and mobile is one of the pillars of our company strategy. To strengthen our mobile development team, we’re looking for someone with a strong background in either iOS or Android development, and preferably some knowledge of both.

If you're suited for this position, you are:
- very intelligent and analytical
- comfortable and happy with rapid, constant change
- an independent learner who trains himself rather than relying on instruction from others
- always focused on improving existing systems and ways of working
- driven to automate tedious work to the greatest degree possible
- able to work on multiple projects and tasks
- a team player and good communicator. this doesn't mean you have worked in a team before; it means you believe working as a team at all levels is the only way to work

Your primary responsibilities will be:
- Design and implementation of mobile applications (iPhone / iPad / Android / …) from the ground up
- Integration with server-side web services to create functional cross-platform applications

Qualifications
Requirements:

- Strong programming and information design skills
- Ability and desire to learn new technologies quickly
- Strong object oriented programming and design skills
- Working in a fast paced agile environment with continuous integration, unit/integration testing
- Estimating and scoping development work accurately
- Experience with Git source control
- Strong sense of ownership and detail-orientation throughout the development lifecycle.
- Experience and understanding of the various mobile/web platform UI design guidelines;
- Background of working in interdisciplinary teams with at least 2 developers
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written business English + conversational Japanese or good English and native Japanese)

We prefer those who can demonstrate experience in:
- At least six months of experience developing commercial iOS/Android applications
- At least 3 years of development experience in general
- Understanding of Objective-C and Java
- Working experience with the iPhone SDK and knowledge of the Android SDK (or the other way around)
- Experience writing multithreaded code
- Java coding & debugging skills
- Experience and understanding of the various mobile platform UI design guidelines

Language Skills
- native Japanese with good English communication skills (email, meetings), or
- fluent English speakers with good Japanese (basic reading is a must)

Working hours
- Monday to Friday, 10:00 - 19:00

Employee Status and Compensation
- full time preferred, but arrangements for contractor-based work is also welcomed
- very competitive salary and possibly stock options

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