Customer Engineer at Urban Airship in Portland, OR

Do you want to be at the front line of hundreds of millions of devices, billions of API requests?

Location: Portland

Responsibilities:

• Work cross-functionally within the organization with the goal of implementing solutions for Urban Airship’s strategic customers and partners
• Work in tandem with the Support Engineers handling partner support cases of an urgent nature.
• Improve and innovate on the tools used to write, deploy, and test a large Django codebase

• Distributed systems background
• Experience with high volume HTTP services and APIs
• Skills troubleshooting customer issues across complex client to server interactions
• Working in a fast pace, continuous delivery environment
• Experience with high performance Python or Java systems, ideally both
• Solid fundamentals with Linux or Solaris
• Django experience a plus
• BA/BS in Computer Science or similar technical degree highly preferred, equivalent experience will also be strongly considered
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Strong technical and software architecture skills
• Experience working on Java based software, with at least one year of Android or iOS experience
• A good understanding of the unique challenges presented by mobile platforms
• Experience developing mobile applications (WP7, Blackberry, PhoneGap, Cordova, HTML5)
• You have worked with python and have some experience with Django (or are prepared to learn quickly)
• You test your way to success
• Communication is key: you can clearly communicate with product, design, and support; as well as with the engineering teams of our partner companies
• You understand the dark corners of the Javascript language