We're hiring!

Smule™ is looking for a few good women and men to help redefine the fast-paced and ever changing world of mobile software.

Smule creates social music-making experiences for everyone, no talent required. We love music and believe that everyone is inherently creative. Our dream is to bring people from all over the world together to share in the joy of creating music, with a little help from the magic of technology.

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Smule invents Smulestruments for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to enable creative social music experiences. Musical works created with Smule's applications, including I Am T-Pain, Ocarina, Magic Piano and Glee Karaoke, have been shared and listened to more than 126 million times since 2008.

Smule's investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, Granite Ventures, Shasta Ventures, and Floodgate. More information about Smule can be found at http://www.smule.com.

What you get to work on every day at Smule:

• Being a part of a cohesive vision in a team that is creating strong social experiences with music as the focus
• Create content rich and interactive social web applications that foster user engagement
• Team based projects in iterative and highly efficient development cycles
• Deploy and update apps against defined deliverables
• Contribute your own insight and reusable code to the Smule code base

Smule has offices in both Palo Alto and San Francisco. Employees may choose which location they prefer to work in!

Open Positions

Android Engineer

As an Android Engineer at Smule you'll be crafting our next generation, massively social, massively multiplayer musical creation experience. Smule's apps are top performers in the iTunes store and in the news--the apps you help create will be enjoyed by millions. Our development cycle is rapid, iterative, and collaborative.

Must have:

• Bachelor degree in CS and 1+ years of Android development on multiple target devices, and 2+ years experience with C++
• Self-starter, strong sense of ownership, get's things done.
• Fun, positive attitude. Great communication skills and a healthy desire for collaboration.

These are good too:

• A knack for creating compelling UIs.
• Game development and design experience.
• Non-trivial experience with the specific tech we use: OpenGL ES, Audio, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, RESTful APIs
• Agile (no make that 'chaos') friendly outlook on life
• Flexible, cross functional, outstanding learner. Ready, willing, and able to jump into any conquer any challenge at this crazy startup.
• Passion for something that Smule is about: music, games, social experiences, outstanding software

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iOS and iPhone Engineer

As an iOS Engineer at Smule you'll be crafting our next generation, massively social, massively multiplayer musical creation experience. Smule's apps are top performers in the iTunes store and in the news--the apps you help create will be enjoyed by millions. Our development cycle is rapid, iterative, and collaborative. We use Objective-C and C++ combined with a powerful suite of in-house RESTful services. Current projects include an unannounced iPhone app + Facebook experience that's going to redefine social music creation.

Must have:

• Bachelor degree in CS and 2+ years of iOS development in Objective-C and 2+ years experience with C++
• Self-starter, strong sense of ownership, get's things done.
• Fun, positive attitude. Great communication skills and a healthy desire for collaboration.

These are good too:

• A knack for creating compelling UIs.
• Game development and design experience.
• Non-trivial experience with the specific tech we use: OpenGL ES, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, RESTful APIs
• Agile (no make that 'chaos') friendly outlook on life
• Flexible, cross functional, outstanding learner. Ready, willing, and able to jump into any conquer any challenge at this crazy startup.
• Passion for something that Smule is about: music, games, social experiences, outstanding software

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3D VFX Engineer

As a 3D VFX Engineer at Smule you'll be using your OpenGL skills to search for new ways to delight, flabbergast, and amaze people into creating music. You are Smule's secret weapon--there are hundreds of apps that aim to make it possible to play the piano, or remix songs you like, but that's not enough--we combine compelling visuals and lovingly honed multitouch/accelerometer/camera/gyroscope/microphone controls in order that, when someone uses one of our apps, creating music is irresistible.

Must have:

• Bachelor degree in CS, 2+ years experience with OpenGL, 2+ years experience with C++
• Self-starter, strong sense of ownership, get's things done.
• Fun, positive attitude. Great communication skills and a healthy desire for collaboration.

These are good too:

• A knack for compelling OpenGL VFX that react to user input
• Formal training in art
• Non-trivial experience with the specific tech we use: iOS development and Objective-C, OpenGL ES
• Agile (no make that 'chaos') friendly outlook on life
• Flexible, cross functional, outstanding learner. Ready, willing, and able to jump into any conquer any challenge at this crazy startup.
• Passion for something that Smule is about: music, games, social experiences, outstanding software

 

For consideration, send resume to: jobs@smule.com.

In the subject line please put the position to which you are applying and your name.

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