HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

A Career at HARMAN Lifestyle

We’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. As a member of HARMAN Lifestyle, you connect consumers with the power of superior sound.

• Contribute your talents to high-end, esteemed brands like JBL, Mark Levinson and Revel
• Unite your passion for audio innovation with high-tech product development
• Create pitch-perfect, cutting-edge technology that elevates the listening experience

About the Role

This position is for a Principle Software Engineer with 10+ years of mobile apps experience. The position requires a self-motivated individual with a strong desire to succeed/excel whose main responsibility is designing and developing mobile apps products. As a Principle Software Engineer the candidate is expected to take a leading role in architecture design and get involved in daily development activities.  Other responsibilities include following company processes and procedures for firmware development and working closely in a team environment. This individual should have a strong, positive attitude and the ability to easily multitask and provide advice/support to other engineers. They should also possess strong verbal and written communication skills.

What You Will Do

• Provide technical leadership in end to end design, development, and testing of mobile apps.
• Work with technical leads, managers and product stakeholders to define and manage the technical roadmap.
• Prepare and present potential technical solutions and advise the business on approach and tradeoffs.
• Work with developers, business analysts and subject matter experts to understand the complex technological system in order to produce integrated end-to-end solution options.
• Communicate solution approaches to enterprise architects, project team and other stakeholders.
• Keep up-to-date on cutting edge technologies and effectively incorporate that knowledge to our platform roadmap, design and implementation.
• Define the technical requirements for the implementation of the mobile apps solution.
• Preparing technical solutions and architecture documents, artifacts, work products and presentations for the customer.

What You Need to Be Successful

• Bachelor degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering. Master degree is preferred.
• 10+ years of mobile application software development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience building consumer facing mobile NATIVE (Android or iOS) and HYBRID solutions.
• A thorough understanding of Android or iOS, architecture, OOP, design patterns, and experience in mobile application integration.
• Excellent skills of Java/Kotlin, or Objective-C/Swift; and expert in Android Studio or XCode.
• Deep knowledge of scalability, security and maintainability of high volume mobile applications.
• Experience with mobile apps analytics.
• Expert in SVN, Git CLI / Tools; good understanding of AI and hands‑on experience using AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot.
• Knowledge of HTTPS, UPnP, RESTful API, WebSocket and JSON, XML.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment to meet project deadlines, and a strong desire to excel in an environment with high-quality engineers.
• Strong consciousness of product quality and improvement.
• Experience overseeing team members.

What Makes You Eligible

• Willingness to travel.
• Willingness to work in an office.
• Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment, allowing for full-time remote work one day per week for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location.
• Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.).
• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University.
• Competitive wellness benefits.
• Access to HARMAN Campus Fitness Center and Cafeteria.
• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.