Be a part of the beginning!
Kiha is looking for smart, motivated people who want to work on cutting edge
technology that will revolutionize the
mobile phone experience.
Joining Kiha will give you the opportunity to make an incredible impact on
the future of our product and business. Our core team represents a wide diversity of
technical,
, creative, and professional disciplines, all motivated by
the opportunity to invent an entirely new
user experience for mobile devices. Kiha is a well-funded startup headquartered in
downtown Seattle. Our founding team has many years of experience in product development,
, business strategy and software engineering.
If you would like to be a part of our incredible
journey, check out our current
job openings:
Principal Architect
Job Summary
Kiha Software is looking for a Principal Architect to join our team. Working closely with the Executive team, Development, Operations and Product Management, you will define our technical platform, oversee and participate in its implementation and delivery, and coordinate the successful deployment and running of the platform at internet/carrier scale. This is a critical leadership position in our company and is a great opportunity for a strong technologist to participate both strategically and tactically to shape the vision for our product. This position reports to the VP of Product.
- Responsibilities
- Be the owner and champion for the definition, roadmap and development of Kiha's cutting-edge, core technology platform
- Work with the Executive and Product Management teams to collect and understand customer needs and turn those into requirements for our entire product stack
- Working with the development and operations teams, define a platform roadmap, identify technologies to investigate and integrate and ultimately deliver on the technical solution
- Create and maintain detailed, clear and concise architecture plans and design documents, ensuring a common understanding across all levels of the company
- Be the driver within Kiha for ensuring our services are scalable, reliable, performant, operable and maintainable. Be chief fanatic for instilling those traits across our services and throughout the development team.
- Must be metrics driven. You want to squeeze every last millisecond of performance out of our system. You agonize over that next 0.1% gain and can explain how much it saves us in operational costs
- Be a key technical leader and mentor for the company, helping to grow the rest of the development team, establish development best practices and ensure we are creating best of breed software
- Be a technical visionary and advisor to the Executive team, participating in customer and partner discussions and driving key partner engagement initiatives as needed to ensure our successful integration with their offerings
- Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years experience of shipping commercial software products on time and on budget, having ideally worked for both a startup and a top-tier software company
- Minimum 5 years hands-on experience in a senior technical leadership role on internet-scale distributed applications and services
- Deeply passionate about technology. You read and write tech blogs, prototype the latest cool tech while on the bus and you dream about making complex systems simpler.
- Pragmatic about applying the right technology at the right time. You can balance the needs of the business against the needs of the platform.
- Read, write, speak, teach and breathe Java.
- Deeply versed in the key web technologies, methodologies and service offerings. You have a strong understanding of and experience with SOA, Spring, Lucene, Hadoop, Mongo DB, CXF, EC2 and more.
- Experience finding and removing performance bottlenecks using profiling tools. Milliseconds matter to you
- Have amazing architecture and design skills and you love mentoring others on improving their skills
- Believe that readable and maintainable code is a requirement, not an afterthought
- Previous mobile industry experience is preferred but not required
- Shipped software in an agile environment. You are passionate about improving the process, but you are realistic about finding the right process that works for the team.
- Customer focused and a motivated self-starter who is able to work in a fast-moving startup environment with dynamic requirements
- Strong attention to detail and thrive on juggling multiple, sometimes conflicting priorities, turning them into actionable plans
- Excellent written and verbal communicator, comfortable presenting to peers, managers, executives and customers
- Education
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline is required, MS is preferred
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Kiha Software is looking for an experienced Senior Product Marketing Manager with an emphasis in Marketing and Public Relations. This is your chance to be a part of an awesome team of people in an exciting environment working with the latest in mobile technology and cloud services. Your work will include defining our go to market strategy and delivering a truly breakthrough product line. This role requires strong project management, marketing savvy, people and vendor management and organizational skills. This role reports to the Director of Product Marketing.
The Product Marketing Manager plays a critical role in defining the next phases of Kiha's product marketing, positioning and public messaging. You should be knowledgeable about the mobile phone industry, experienced with large product releases, conversant with current trends in marketing and social media promotion and excited about the opportunity to deliver your best work on a tight timeline.
- High standards of professional integrity and work ethic, and strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to intelligently present to senior executives and senior partners.
- Product Release: Experience in product release cycle, specifically focused in marketing and public relations. Solid understanding of contemporary trends in public relations, marketing and advertising. Ability to understand how to measure success, optimize launch traffic and leverage media attention.
- Strategic Marketing: development of marketing plans: strategies for market segmentation, target market selection, identifying market needs (customer, and end-user) and positioning/differentiation (mindshare and competitive differentiation).
- Collateral Development: establishing a unified voice and messaging for the market via development of multiple communication channels and creation of product knowledgebase, datasheets, product videos, etc.
- Sales Support: supporting sales team via analysis of competitive products, and creation of key sales collateral — presentations, competitive analysis, business case/ROI development.
- Awareness of current standards in social media and social media product and concept promotion.
- Self-starter with vision, ambition, and a passion to succeed in a fast paced environment
- Confident and positive in a fast-paced environment.
- BA or BS required, MBA degree preferred
- 5+ years of wireless ecosystem experience
- 7+ yrs experience as a product manager and/or senior marketing manager for technical products.
- Knowledgeable about mobile ecosystem requirements
- Exceptional communication (written and presentation) skills
iPhone Developer (Contract)
Kiha's product development team is looking for a talented developer to help us create iPhone applications as part of our core product offering. Working closely with Program Management, Creative, Development and QA, you will define, implement and perfect core product features. This position reports to the Director of Applications.
- Responsibilities
- Collaborate with design, engineering and product teams on requirements, design and implementation of iPhone applications.
- Design, code, and test iPhone applications.
- Participate in projects from requirements gathering through implementation and QA to deployment.
- Requirements
- At least 3 years of commercial iPhone development experience.
- Must be a highly technical, customer focused and motivated self-starter who is able to work in a fast-moving startup environment with dynamic requirements and active customer support.
This 1099 contract position is for 3-6 months on site at Kiha, with the possibility of conversion to Full Time Employment at the contract's end.
Lead SDET
Kiha Software is seeking a motivated and proven SDET Lead. The ideal candidate will take ownership of all tools development across the company. This person will lead by example, enforce best practices, unify multiple on-going initiatives and drive quality through the pursuit of intelligently applied tools and automation.
Duties will include leading (not managing) a group of SDET professionals in ensuring consistency in day to day coding practices and ensuring individual projects line up with long term company goals. This position will report to the QA manager and integrate into the QA organization as a whole.
You are passionate about driving Quality. You thrive in an Agile and dynamic working environment. Temper this with pragmatism and experience and you will be the ideal Candidate. This role is not a white box test role, but rather an SDE in Test.
- Responsibilities
- Own and Drive Tools Development including Automation, unit testing, load/stress and performance testing
- Mentor SDET team and provide a clear and unified vision of technical best practices
- Maintain current code base and research new tools & methodologies to implement across the group and company as a whole
- Evaluate, scope and report on current/proposed development initiatives
- Perform peer code reviews, and distribution of new tools/completed initiatives
- Document, Document, Document
- Lead by example, clear technical hurdles, and communicate status to all stakeholders
- Qualifications
- Strong coding skills in Java
- Experience with load testing tools. Both commercial and home grown solutions
- Excellent analytic skills are required. Experience with machine learning or statistic analysis a huge plus
- Experience with Databases is a must. Knowledge of SQL is assumed. (Mongo, SQLlite is real plus)
- Strong multi-platform development and testing experience. This includes experience developing and testing in a Linux environment
- Mobile test automation a big plus
- Experience with large scale commercially deployed distributed systems
- Document, Document, Document! (did we mention that?)
- Education
- BS in CS a plus, proven experience in an SDET role a must and can suffice
Web Developer (Contract)
At Kiha Software we're developing Android mobile applications and services that use machine intelligence to produce an intuitive and efficient user experience
Kiha’s Client Applications team is looking for a talented web developer to help us create web applications as part of our core product offering. Working closely with Program Management, Creative, Development and QA, you will define, implement and debug core product features. This position reports to the Director of Applications.
- Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with design, engineering and product teams on requirements, design and implementation of web applications.
- Design, code, and test web applications, using Ruby on Rails, HTML, Javascript and CSS.
- Participate in projects from requirements gathering through implementation and QA to deployment.
- Requirements:
- At least 4 years of production-quality web development experience, with skills in Ruby on Rails, HTML, Javascript and CSS.
- Strong command of web standards, cross-browser compatibility, optimization techniques, accessibility and internationalization issues.
- Must be a highly technical, customer focused and motivated self-starter who is able to work in a fast-moving startup environment with dynamic requirements and active customer support.
- Specific experience in optimizing web applications for mobile platforms desired.
- This 1099 contract position is for 3-6 months and could be converted to FTE at that point if you are a rock star. We are located in the always fun Pioneer Square.
Operations Engineer
Kiha is looking for an experienced Operations Engineer with a strong production operational background who insists on operational best practices in areas such as security, deployment, and monitoring. Exp developer with innate troubleshooting skills who can contribute in areas such as building tools and resources to implement automated, large-scale, virtual data centers. This is an FTE role NOT a contractor.
Responsibilities
- Help to design and develop the tools and resources to implement a fully automated, large-scale, cloud-based, virtual data center.
- Identify, tune, and deploy new infrastructure tools to meet the needs of a highly scalable, rapidly growing web-based service.
- Working closely with software engineers to tune performance and identify problems.
- Qualifications
- 5+ yrs experience administrating complex clusters of servers in production environments
- Deep knowledge of Linux and standard Unix command line tools.
- Tomcat/Java experience is a must
- Proven development experience using languages such as Ruby or Perl.
- LDAP expertise strongly desired
- Experience with AWS/EC2/S3 tools, APIs, and interfaces
- Experience with Puppet, Chef, or comparable configuration tools
- Virtualization experience is very desirable.
- Deep knowledge about how to measure performance, identify and fix bottlenecks, and re-architect large systems that are already in production
- Ability to work closely with other highly experienced engineers to quickly develop software to improve operational capabilities.
- Minimum of 2 years of previous experience working on large-scale SOA sites
- Bachelor’s degree a must, CS or Engineering specific preferred
Education
SW Engineer – Data Services
At Kiha Software, we're developing a mobile platform that couples an innovative interface with machine intelligence to produce a highly intuitive and efficient user experience. We are seeking exceptional software engineers to join our data services team. This team is responsible for building Kiha's world class mobile synchronization solution, integrating with numerous data sources. Strong candidates will have extensive experience developing high performance distributed applications along with a track record of successful commercial deployments.
- Responsibilities
- You will be working on the core services that synchronize user data to and from a variety of third-party systems of record. Specifically, you will: Investigate and make recommendations regarding appropriate APIs and toolkits Design, develop, maintain and optimize service components and frameworks that meet architectural, design, and schedule requirements Thoroughly test and coordinate with Dev and QA to ensure successful deployment of dependent features and code changes.
- Qualifications
- All candidates must have:
- Excellent programming skills – a strong Java background is required
- 3+ years experience building large-scale distributed applications
- A Solid understanding of data structures
- Excellent analytical skills
- Be results-oriented, self-motivated, and a resourceful problem-solver
- Believe that readable and maintainable code is a requirement, not an afterthought
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- A passion for technology and a drive to deliver
- Ideally, the candidate will have:
- Excellent shell scripting skills
- Experience operating and developing software in a Linux environment
- Deployed an application on EC2 or other computing cloud
- Experience finding and removing performance bottlenecks using profiling tools. Milliseconds matter to you
- Education
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Software Engineer - AI Machine Learning
Kiha is looking for passionate SW Engineers who dig research and problem solving but coding is a must in your dream job.
You enjoy solving hard problems in a fast-paced, highly-collaborative production environment?
You routinely find and implement practical solutions to near impossible problems?
You often wonder what the world would be like if your mobile phone could pass the Turing test?
At Kiha Software, we're developing a mobile platform that couples an innovative interface with machine
intelligence to produce a highly intuitive and efficient user experience. And now, we're looking for you! We are seeking a software engineer to join our world class analytics
team. Strong candidates will have extensive experience developing high performance distributed applications along with a track record of successful commercial deployments.
- Qualifications
- Excellent programming skills – a strong Java background is required.
- Experience with databases and ORM tools is highly desired, strong SQL and Hibernate background preferred
- Background in Data Mining, Search, AI, Social Network modeling and/or Machine Learning
- Solid understanding of data structures
- Strong design and architecture experience including an understanding of UML
- 3+ years of development experience (Internet/Web related applications a plus)
- 7+ years of development exp for Senior level
- Excellent analytical skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Nice to have
- Excellent shell scripting skills
- Experience operating and developing software in a Linux environment
- Experience with large scale commercially deployed distributed systems
- Education
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
If this role is a fit for you, we want to hear from you today. At this time we are not sponsoring visas or visa transfers.
I'm Interested!Program Manager-Data Analytics
Kiha Software’s product team is looking for a program manager to join our Data Analytics team. Working closely with Product Management, Creative and Development, you will define product requirements, translate those into features, analyze their overall feasibility and scope, plan for their delivery and manage their execution, shipping them on-time and on-budget. This role requires strong project management, technical, people and organizational skills. This is a full time regular position which reports to the VP of Product.
- Responsibilities
- Be the owner and customer champion for the definition and development of our Data Analytics features
- Collaborate with key business stakeholders and product team members to translate customer requirements into product features
- Work with the development team, assess feasibility and define project scope and costs
- Create and maintain detailed, clear and concise product specifications and project plans
- Be the leader of cross-functional feature teams to deliver on our features
- Monitoring progress across the groups responsible for the feature areas
- Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years experience as a program manager, preferably working for a startup
- Previous experience shipping commercial products on time and on budget
- Previous experience in search, semantic analysis or natural language processing is required
- Previous mobile industry experience is preferred
- Demonstrated experience shipping software in an agile environment, with both local and remote teams
- Demonstrated ability to manage teams of peers across a feature team
- Strong technical comprehension of internet and mobile product technologies.
- Must be highly technical, customer focused and a motivated self-starter who is able to work in a fast-moving startup environment with dynamic requirements
- Must have strong attention to detail and thrive on juggling multiple, sometimes conflicting priorities, turning them into actionable plans
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable presenting to peers, managers, executives and customers
- Education
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline is preferred
If this role is a fit for you, we want to hear from you today. At this time we are not sponsoring visas or visa transfers.
I'm Interested!Software Reporting Engineer
Kiha is looking for an experienced Reporting Engineer to work with us onsite.
The candidate will be working closely with various teams to understand the data currently being gathered as well as recommend/implement new data that should be gathered in order to create a rich and adaptable
reporting/dashboard system.
I'm Interested!