Senior Platform Engineer

Description

You know, people like to talk about mobile. They like to talk about the web. That stuff is all well and good, but when the rubber meets the road, the desktop is where the actions is.

Did Plato type out The Republic in some half-assed web editor? No.

Did Galileo draw the moons of Jupiter on a tablet? No.

Did Lincoln write the Gettysburg Address on a smartphone? Sources disagree, but probably not.

Ask that mobile developer how he’s writing his code. On a desktop, that’s where. Ask that game developer where he writes his games. You can bet it’s on a desktop. Ask yourself, where are you reading this job posting right now? What’s that big flat screen nestled between your iced latte and your copy of TCP/IP Illustrated?

That, my friend, is a desktop.

HERE’S WHY YOU’RE AWESOME:

• You’ve worked on more clients than a Hollywood madam. Dave Cutler still won’t add a new system call without asking your opinion first. You think that only sissies use the file explorer that comes with an OS; real programmers write their own. You can’t help typing WinDbg commands into Visual Studio.

• You’re a programming wizard. You dream in C++, write sonnets about your favorite data structure, and sing songs in machine code. You throw away cooking recipes that don’t complete in linear time.

• You fix what’s broke, and you don’t broke what’s fixed. Your favorite moment of 2013 was when you found a memory corruption bug. You get crash reports texted to your phone. You spend your weekends reading other peoples’ check-in comments.

• You never stopped going to school. Your home library resembles an underground bunker. Your New Year’s resolution was to learn a new programming language every month. Your list of side projects reads like a game studio’s back catalog.

• You play well with others. You know there’s a ‘me’ in team--but it’s backwards. Hogging the limelight gives you a sunburn. You know the favorite color of everyone on your team and you bake special cookies for that level designer with a peanut allergy.

• Win32

• Cocoa

• Qt

• MFC

• SQL

Okay, maybe you’re not all of these things—yet. That’s okay. The question is, do you want to be?

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