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Skype is willing to sponsor relocation for this position

About Skype

Skype is software that enables the world’s conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Everyday, people everywhere also use Skype to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles.

The Brief

Skype for Windows Phone will be the 'next big mobile' app to be used by millions of users around the world. It is a strategic platform for Skype and an important revenue generator.

Skype is committed to actively introducing new functionality and product features on the Windows Phone platform and devices to lead groundbreaking developments on the platform.

The Windows Phone development team produces elegant, robust software that delight and excite our customers. Working as part of a highly skilled team delivering several major releases on the platform yearly, the developer will innovate new features, optimize existing ones and drive improvements in the overall performance of the application.

Responsibilities

•	Developing new features in cooperation with designers, product management and quality engineers, iterating daily and contributing to maintaining a healthy build

•	Demonstrating creativity in finding optimal ways to implement features

•	Demonstrating critical thinking and paying attention to corner cases

•	Maintaining daily estimates of remaining effort on active work as conventional in a Scrum team

•	Making sure that software components are consistent and work well with each other

•	Actively communicating with fellow developers in order to synchronize work and making sure that developers understand each other's work

•	Taking responsibility and ownership in the team's work

•	Investigating incoming bug reports

•	Comprehensively testing one's own code for bugs, demonstrating meticulous attention to detail

•	Developing robust fixes to bugs and implementing improvements

•	Pro-actively searching for potential optimization possibilities

•	Learning new technologies

•	Continuously keeping an eye on the latest cutting edge technologies and leveraging these in one's own work as necessary

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Experience:

•	Experience in developing applications for embedded/mobile devices

•	Experience in multihtreaded programming, asynchronous and event driven application design

•	Experience of Agile and iterative development processes, e.g. Scrum

Technical Skills & Knowledge:

•	Windows Phone 7 development using C# and/or Silverlight

•	Development experience using the .NET framework

•	Development experience using C and/or C++

•	Experience with other platforms and programming languages (iOS / Objective-C, Symbian / C++, Android / Java)

•	Excellent working English skills, both written and spoken

Problem Solving Skills / Analytics:

•	Providing meaningful input in discussions and analysis on new features: analytical skills, technical judgement and the ability to use data get a coherent point across

Leadership:

•	A genuine, contagious can do attitude with capability to chase issues and dependencies between different teams at Skype until complete resolution.

•	A strong will to follow through on each task until it's finalized, a strive for true excellence

Interpersonal Skills:

•	Track record working within / contributing to high performing teams.

•	An ability to understand technical requirements and articulate them in plain English, as well as ability to understand commercial requests and translate them into technical requirements.

•	Cultural sensitivity and a proven ability to work with teams and partners across multiple geographies.

Motivation & Passion:

•	A passion for software development and Skype products as well as passionate advocate of great customer experience.

•	Professional and personal mature, a self-starter able to work well without direct supervision and a demonstrable commitment to achieving strategic, operational and project goals.

Qualifications:

•	Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related subject

Interested individuals should send their resume to james.cooper-richardson(at)skype.net