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iPhone Developer Jobs
iPhone Developers - Senior and Junior Positions available
We are seeking to add several more developers to our busy iPhone / iPad development team.
Successful candidates will be:
- Experienced in iPhone development with 12 - 18 months experience - with either personal or commercial iPhone applications available in the iPhone Store.
- Excellent knowledge with Objective C, X Code & UI Kit.
- Experienced with WebKit, Javascript., AJAX and Json
- Other mobile platforms experience: Symbian, J2ME, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Android
- Facebook Connect for mobile
- Java
- Eclipse
- Fluency in English is a requirement, additional language skills an advantage
Android Mobile Developer
Android Developers - Senior and Junior Positions available
We are seeking to add two more developers to our Android development team.
Successful candidates will be:
- Experienced mobile application developers (2-3 yrs), with current Android development experience
- Other mobile platforms experience : at least one of Symbian, J2ME, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, iPhone, Java
- Eclipse
- Fluency in English is a requirement, additional language skills an advantage
Mobile UI Designer
A Web/Mobile UIDesigner, with 2-3 years proven commercial experience, is needed to work across all design and digital projects. You will be working within our design team to create concepts and designs for B2B partner web sites as well as online and mobile user interfaces.
Main Tasks & Responsibilities:
Main Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Create page mockups (flat and html) to be used in technical specifications
- Design and build multi-lingual web pages for core and affiliated sites
- Design and create marketing and promotional material including banners, newsletters and brochures
- Design creative and user-friendly interface designs for mobile applications and websites
- A minimum of two years experience within a commercial web design environment
- Sound knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, CSS
- Understanding of PHP, MySQL and Javascript would be a bonus
- Be able to work to deadlines, both independently and within the team
- Be self-motivated and participate at research and conceptual stages
- Degree level graphic design qualification or the equivalent
Web Developers Jobs
Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities of the Position:
The successful candidate will design, implement, test, and support modular PHP code based on their core code base and adhere to their coding style guidelines and documentation structure. You will be expected to deliver well integrated and tested, re-usable code that can be deployed across all of their sites, and share the knowledge and experience gained with the rest of the team. The role can and will vary between fixing bugs to designing, implementing, and deploying whole new modules of functionality, depending on your experience, abilities, and enthusiasm.
With many commercial years' experience in PHP/mySQL development and experience in a variety of other web-based technologies you will not only be encouraged but expected to share your opinion and ideas with the rest of their motivated web team to improve the quality of output.
Necessary Experience / Technical or Professional Qualifications / Personal Skills:
The successful candidate will design, implement, test, and support modular PHP code based on their core code base and adhere to their coding style guidelines and documentation structure. You will be expected to deliver well integrated and tested, re-usable code that can be deployed across all of their sites, and share the knowledge and experience gained with the rest of the team. The role can and will vary between fixing bugs to designing, implementing, and deploying whole new modules of functionality, depending on your experience, abilities, and enthusiasm.
With many commercial years' experience in PHP/mySQL development and experience in a variety of other web-based technologies you will not only be encouraged but expected to share your opinion and ideas with the rest of their motivated web team to improve the quality of output.
Necessary Experience / Technical or Professional Qualifications / Personal Skills:
- 3+ years object orientated PHP 5 application development, preferably in a team environment
- Understanding of common design patterns - experience/understanding of MVC model
- Comfortable using PDO and Stored Procedures to write complex MySQL queries
- XHTML, JavaScript, Ajax
- Be able to work to deadlines, both independently and within the team
- Be self-motivated and want to take concepts and ideas and develop them
- All experience with client side technologies and methodologies beneficial, such as CSS and user interface design
- Web Services, SOAP
Web Designer/Front end developer
A Web Designer, with 2-3 years proven commercial experience, is needed to work across all design and digital projects. You will be working within our design team to create concepts and designs for B2b partner web sites as well as online and mobile user interfaces.
Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities of the Position::
Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities of the Position::
- To create re-usable mark-up and code that can be deployed across all sites and then integrate it and test it with backend systems
- To design and build multi-lingual web pages for core and affiliated sites
- To be aware of SEO best practices and proactively seek to improve SEO throughout
- Learn and use specified company standards and procedures to modify existing web pages and design new ones
- Ensure that (X)HTML and CSS is W3C valid
- Keeping up to date with new languages, web methodologies and standards
- To create page mockups (flat and html) to be used in technical specifications
- Fix bugs, troubleshoot and critique coding and design to ensure quality end products
- Feed ideas and opinions back to colleagues and managers
- Help to improve existing methodologies if possible
- Meet established deadlines, or consult with management to adjust deadlines
- 2-3 years commercial experience hand-coding mark-up and script using (X)HTML 4, CSS 2.0 and Javascript. Table-less XHTML with CSS skills are required
- 2-3 years use of Photoshop and a mainstream development IDE such as Eclipse
- 1+ years experience of PHP and mySQL development
- Good understanding of web standards and semantic mark-up
- Good experience with accessibility, usability and cross-browser issues
- Good web design creativity and understanding of user interface design
- Willing to keep up-to-date with emerging web technologies and methodologies and use them where appropriate, including HTML5 and CSS3
- Be able to work to deadlines, both independently and within the team
- Be a multi-tasker, self-motivated and want to take concepts and ideas and develop them
- Some knowledge, or ability to learn Flash and ActionScript
South Africa (Capetown)
J2ME/Blackberry Mobile Developer
We are seeking to add an experienced J2ME / Blackberry developer to our mobile development team in Capetown, SA.
Successful candidates will be:
Successful candidates will be:
- Experienced mobile application developers (2-3 yrs), with current Blackberry development experience
- Have other mobile platforms experience: at least one of Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile, iPhone, Java
- Eclipse
- Fluency in English is a requirement, additional language skills an advantage
Virtual Universe Key Facts
- Founded in 1995
- Locations: London, South Africa
- Focus on providing mobile solutions to media and entertainment customers.
- Active customer implementations in over 50 countries
For all jobs please send CV with covering letter, work samples and current salary details to jobs@virtual-universe.net