Software Systems Engineer - III

Location: Basking Ridge-NJ-USA

Responsibilities:

• Ensure features and requirements are executed in a timely manner , closely track and understand issues and work with appropriate teams to drive them to closure.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders including application teams marketing, pricing, device technology, network to onboard and support different product features like Location, VoWifi, LTE, IMS, PDN connectivity and
• Work closely with vendors, OEM’s and internal QA teams to drive new feature development from start to finish - define requirements, debug and test issues and making decisions during development, and lead on-going improvements.
• Support onboarding of core applications and services ,including integration with various target systems.
• Work with various teams to understand and validate the technical feasibility of core applications and services and its impact to existing in-market devices.
• Analysis and debugging of production issues and work towards fixing them.
• Prototype Proof of concept ideas prior to deploying in production.
• Bug fix verification and validation.
• Fully participate in all aspects of the product development cycle, including daily scrums, QA, bug triage, and releases
• Work on latest telecom technologies, such as LTE, IMS, VoLTE, VoWIFI, Carrier Aggregation, eMBMS, Data Throughput, CDMA, EvDo, UMTS, WCDMA, HSPA, and 2G.

Technical skills:

• 8-10+ years of experience in mobile industry with 3+ years of project management experience, 3+ years of strong Android Experience and expertise in driving projects from start to in-market commercialization.
• Experience in defining requirements, developing technical architecture and design for new features and functionalities. Come up with new design ideas for applications and services making use of modern Java technologies and design patterns.
• Hands on experience with Android tools like adb, ddms, aapt, eclipse IDE and extensive experience in debugging Android code using these tools.
• Experience in developing application code using Java/J2EE, C++ or Objective C
• Hands on experience with building Android from AOSP
• Hands on experience with version control system (GIT, subversion, etc).
• Experience with writing Linux kernel modules
• Experience in designing, developing, debugging and deploying software for client as well as server side.
• Knowledge and experience on Performance Monitoring and Protocol Analyzer tools (e.g., Wily, Wireshark).
• Expertise in Restful APIs/WebServices to connect Android applications to back-end services.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.
• Self-starter and highly motivated with hands-on experience debugging bugs/issues and fixing them.
• Perform unit and integration testing to validate new applications/features/modules as well as bug fixes.
• Effective communication skills and ability to multi-task and work with cross-functional teams within VZW on different projects as and when needed.
• Experience in latest mobile technologies such as LTE, IMS, VoLTE, VoWIFI, Carrier Aggregation, eMBMS, Data Throughput, CDMA, 3GPP/3GPP2 formats, SMPP protocol etc.

Other helpful skills:

• Knowledge and experience with CDMA/LTE a plus.
• Knowledge in database and visual studio

Vivek Salvatore

vivek.salvatore(@)americanetworks.com

(973) 582-3458