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As a Software Engineer with Flash development expertise, you’ll be responsible for the design, development, and support of client application to support to support several engineering endeavors. The resulting products will enable innovative and compelling experiences for Sony’s customers.

The Software Engineer will be expected to call upon his/her extensive experience while effectively collaborating with colleagues throughout the organization. In addition to hands-on design and implementation, there will be elements of technical leadership, coordination between groups/regions, and effective participation in product planning processes.

You will work within a San Francisco development office and in the company of a small team of passionate engineers.

Job Functions Include

• Perform quality and efficient software development for projects of varying complexity and duration.
• Complete assigned tasks on-time and to specifications.
• Work with planning teams to understand product requirements and plan accurate development schedules.
• Design, define, and perform test processes as appropriate.

Additional Requirements

• Experience designing and implementing software applications using the Flash Platform (3+ years)
• In-depth knowledge of and experience with ActionScript 3.
• Experience integrating Flash applications with server applications.
• Superb communication skills
• Familiar with all aspects of software lifecycle
• Experience working effectively within both small and large organizations
• Possesses strong goal-based initiative; love of solving challenging problems
• Possesses solid UX & GUI design sensibilities
• Enthusiastic about digital media, devices, and related products
• Bachelors of Science in CS or equivalent

Technical Proficiencies

• ActionScript 3 expertise
• Strong GUI development experience
• XML/E4X/HTML/JS
• Ability to extract visual assets from graphic programs such as PhotoShop & Illustrator.
• A strong knowledge of common image formats and their compression trade offs.
• Able to produce programmatic animations.
• Comfortable working with Flex Builder / FDT or an equivalent ActionScript development environment.
• Ability to leverage events and OOP practices in order to create reusable code libraries and components
• Fundamental understanding of Databases

Plusses

• Experience with Adobe AIR
• MXML/Flex Framework knowledge
• Adobe Pixel Bender Language 1.0
• Ability to leverage an additional scripting language such as Ruby / Python / PHP / Perl
• Fundamental knowledge and understanding of of C/C++ / C# / Java
• Participation within the wider Flash community (eg. blogging, open source, mailing lists, prerelease, user groups).
• Experience developing for a consumer electronics device platform
• Perforce