MobilEdu is a new division of Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB), a global leader in enterprise technology and innovative solutions that improves the experience of millions of students around the world, every day.
MobilEdu (http://www.medu.com) allows education institutions to deliver a rich set of campus life services and content to mobile devices, uniquely branded for each institution, to better connect current students, parents, faculty, prospective students and alumni to the campus experience in a way that wasn\'t possible before.

With an Apple iPhone, iPod Touch or other device with a mobile Web browser, MobilEdu users can navigate course catalogs and campus maps, e-mail professors and classmates and get real-time updates on their course schedules, campus events, news and sports teams. Stanford and Duke University were the first schools to adopt the MobilEdu platform—now, 11 higher-ed (including UC San Diego, Texas A&M, University of San Diego, Texas Christian University) and two K-12 institutions use the platform.

MobilEdu was formerly a creation of Terriblyclever Design, a small company based out of San Francisco—Terriblyclever was acquired by Blackboard in July 2009. The MobilEdu team is now hiring experienced, talented, and passionate engineers to join the San Francisco team and continue innovating this new area of mobility in education.

We pride ourselves on creating well-designed mobile solutions that leverage powerful components of the iPhone and other mobile devices. Thousands of students and faculty members use our product at each of our institutions. We’re looking for new engineers who can share that excitement and help us create new and interesting mobile tools as part of our platform.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

We are currently looking for a Senior Software Analyst to join our MobilEdu team in our San Francisco offices. The Senior Software Analyst tasks will include, but not be limited to, the following:

• Developing, maintaining, and conceptualizing the Blackboard MobilEdu product, specifically within the context of MobilEdu’s hosted platform, which acts as a central service (web, PHP, and ultimately web-service based) to our end-user mobile software.
• Analyze, design and implement application structures, API’s and database schemas for new MobilEdu components.
• Extend APIs to support implementation of MobilEdu at a growing number of institutions. Continue to scale the MobilEdu platform to support a larger number of users.
• Use a disciplined approach for design, development, maintenance, and documentation of enterprise software.
• Promote established standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the software development life cycle.
• Analyze system functional and performance requirements to support design architectures

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
• Must have a B.S. in Computer Science or related area of study and be eligible to work in the United States
• 5+ years experience in developing Web based Enterprise Applications
• Languages - Mostly proficient in PHP, with a firm understanding of Shell, JavaScript, Ajax, HTML, CSS Style - Web page design
• Web Technologies – Apache, Tomcat, Zend Accelerator
• GUI Development – AJAX/CSS/Graphics Design Skills
• Database – Oracle & MySQL schema design and development, with familiarity in database administration tools such as PhpMyAdmin, Navicat MySQL, MySQL Shell or similar.
• Practical experience and demonstrable complete proficiency with Web Services, XML, AJAX, PHP, HTML, DHTML, SOAP, JavaScript, and other UI technologies.
SUCCESS QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong communication skills to gather requirements and communicate with end-users
• Excellent Perl/Shell Scripting experience for use in integration and automation.
• In-depth knowledge of software engineering techniques and concepts such as Extreme programming and source control/version control tools
• Solid understanding of how web based applications work using Linux/Apache and MySQL in the back-end.
• Experience working with code management software (example, subversion, etc)

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