Mobile Development Lead Engineer

Title : Mobile Development Lead Engineer

Location : Carlsbad, CA

Hanwha Vision America (HVA), formerly known as Hanwha Techwin, is an affiliate of the Hanwha Group, a Fortune Global 500 company. HVA is an industry-leading provider of advanced network video surveillance products, including IP cameras, storage devices, and video management systems, founded on world-class technologies. We offer end-to-end security solutions and have achieved global success across a wide range of industry verticals, including retail, transportation, education, banking, healthcare, hospitality, and airports.

Hanwha Vision America is seeking a highly experienced Mobile Development Lead Engineer to join our team. This is a full-time, on-site position. In this role, you will be a key leader, responsible for the hands-on design, development, and maintenance of our IoT SaaS-based iOS and Android mobile applications, which are focused on real-time, low-latency video streaming . You will be a technical leader, responsible for driving architectural decisions, ensuring mobile application scalability and security, mentoring other engineers, and tackling our most complex engineering challenges. This role requires collaboration with the company’s presence across various global teams (US East, US West, South Korea, India) to align with the Product Management and Product Engineering Processes to deliver a world-class user experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Security Focus

Champion and implement mobile development cybersecurity best practices. Analyze results from source control analysis and penetration testing, integrating security into the design lifecycle.

Technical Leadership

Lead the design and development of native mobile applications, with a primary focus on iOS and an ability to contribute to Android development.

Work hands-on to write clean, efficient, and well-documented code for our video streaming applications.

Mentor and guide other developers on the team, leading technical design sessions and code reviews.

Best Practices & Quality

Act as a champion for our secure Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process, enforcing high standards for software development, including the use of design patterns, comprehensive design documentation, rigorous unit testing, and thorough code reviews.

Collaboration

Champion the company’s vision and core values through your work while collaborating with our global engineering teams, product managers, project managers, DevOps, QA, and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality features.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 10+ years of professional software engineering lead experience in native mobile application development, with a strong emphasis on real-time, low-latency streaming.
• Extensive experience with video codecs (e.g., H.264, H.265), streaming protocols (e.g., RTSP, WebRTC), and video playback libraries.
• Extensive, hands-on experience in Agile mobile application development .
• Extensive experience primarily on the iOS platform development. Complementary Android platform development is preferred.
• A strong portfolio of native SaaS-based IOT mobile applications that you have designed, built, and commercially released.
• Deep understanding and practical experience with iOS and Android edge-caching technologies
• Hands-on experience implementing and working with communication protocols such as HTTPS, MQTT, WebSocket, and WebRTC
• Mastery of software engineering best practices : design patterns, multithreading, comprehensive design documentation, unit testing frameworks, and code review processes.
• Proven experience leading the design and development efforts and mentoring of a team of mobile developers.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

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