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Mobile iOS Developer at Gannett Digital, Mc Lean, VA

This position is located in McLean, Virginia.


Gannett is an international media and marketing solutions company providing millions of people with the information they want; and connecting them to their communities of interest through multiple platforms including Internet, mobile, newspapers, magazines and TV.

As an innovative industry leader, Gannett engages consumers wherever they are with its powerful brands and trusted content. The company helps businesses grow by providing marketing solutions that reach and engage their customers across its diverse platforms.

Gannett is a digital leader with more than 100 U.S. newspaper and TV station web sites; CareerBuilder.com, the nation's top employment site; and Gannett Digital Media Network, which includes top brands like USATODAY.com, MomsLikeMe.com, HighSchoolSports.net, Metromix.com, and action sports networks BNQT and Venture.

 

Helping to further Gannett's scope as a marketing solutions company is PointRoll, a leading online advertising rich-media provider, and ShopLocal, a leader in connecting advertisers and consumers online and in-store. PointRoll and ShopLocal work together to provide online advertisers with rich media advertising solutions. Ripple6 helps advertisers deploy easy – yet powerful – social media solutions.

Delivering new, high quality digital products and services across the company is core to the company’s future success. 

The Team, Position and Overall Responsibilities:

The mobile team is responsible for developing a strategy for delivering best-in-class mobile solutions scalable throughout multiple Gannett companies.  Solutions include in-house and managed vendor approaches and target all mobile devices from both a web-based and native application perspective.  All Gannett mobile initiatives are extremely high profile and must utilize state of the art technologies.

This position is responsible for the design, development, and support of Gannett mobile initiatives including USA TODAY and local community mobile native applications, mobile web sites, and related products and services.  This individual is also responsible for maintaining Gannett’s extremely high quality requirements and contributing to a cutting edge approach to the mobile presence.  The Mobile Software Developer will work closely with the Mobile Product team and other Gannett units including the US Community Publishing Division, Broadcasting Division, and USA TODAY

The ideal candidate possesses an innovative but disciplined approach to technology development. He/she possesses an orientation to successful, on-time, on-budget project implementation. 

  • Timely development, testing and release of mobile applications in support of Gannett’s mobile initiatives.
  • Keen attention to detail and quality, complying with Gannett’s high standard of quality.
  • Work with other developers, designers and product/business managers to develop new features consistent with product roadmap.
  • Learn and absorb new technologies quickly, be a strong team player and rapidly adapt to changing business and customer demands.
  • Be innovative, contributing ideas and working with constituents to evaluate and propose approaches that balance speed to market needs against processes needed to scale services to all markets and total audience.
  • Maintain awareness in technology developments that affect either our audience’s ability to use our products or extend new product potential.
  • Able to react to change productively and handle other essential tasks as assigned.

  • Minimum 6 years web software development experience that includes 2-4 years iOS development.
  • Demonstrated experience with iOS SDK is a must.  
  • Demonstrated experience with javascript, XHMTL and HTML5.
  • Demonstrated experience consuming web services
  • Demonstrated experience in object oriented design and development of applications and systems. 
  • Ability to quickly master new technologies while maintaining performance and reliability.
  • Defensive coding approach accompanied with strong analytic and problem solving skills.
  • Strong debugging skills with the ability to reach out and work with peers to solve complex problems.
  • Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline preferred. 
  • Prior successful experience in media or related industry is desirable.
  • Highly conversant in digital media, such as understanding best practices for websites, email, mobile content delivery, and mobile ad serving.
  • Candidates must be proactive, innovative, collaborative, and driven to achieve desired results.  Must be passionate about solving problems for users, advertisers and publishers.

Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is an international news and information company operating on multiple platforms including the Internet, mobile, newspapers, magazines and TV stations.  Gannett is an Internet leader with hundreds of newspaper and TV web sites; CareerBuilder.com, the nation’s top employment site; USATODAY.com; and more than 80 local MomsLikeMe.com sites.  Gannett publishes 82 daily U.S. newspapers, including USA TODAY, the nation’s largest-selling daily newspaper, and more than 650 magazines and other non-dailies including USA WEEKEND.  Gannett also operates 23 television stations in 19 U.S. markets. Gannett subsidiary Newsquest is the United Kingdom’s second largest regional newspaper company with 17 daily paid-for titles, more than 200 weekly newspapers, magazines and trade publications, and a network of web sites.