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Title:  Senior Software Engineer
Location:  Raleigh, NC
Compensation: $90,000-$110,000

The Company
Alien Skin Software is a successful maker of Photoshop plug-ins. We have been pleasing customers for 18 years, profitable the whole time, and are here to stay. We offer a relaxed but professional work environment with excellent benefits.

The Job
You will be one of the engineers who create our photography and graphic design software. Our products are fun to work on because they make beautiful pictures based on research level image processing. Our user interfaces are polished in order to make the rocket science under the hood easy to control.

You will create user interfaces and the core architecture of our products. Typically you will be on a two person team with an image processing expert. You will have a lot of influence over the design of the product you are working on. No marketing droid will force you to add features just to fill out a bullet list. If you get excited about a great research idea, then you will be able to work on it.

You will use Xcode on Mac and Visual Studio on Windows, using Nokia’s Qt toolkit. We use the best tools and techniques we can find, such as a build server, Perforce integrated with FogBugz, templates, assertions, and a full-time tester. If you understand why those are worth the investment then you will fit right in.

The current development group is five seasoned developers with many successful product releases under our belts. We are energetic, like to learn, and inspire each other to become better. If you thrive in a collegial atmosphere then you will love it here.

We run the company as engineers would, because the owners and managers are engineers (no investors). Development goals are challenging but reasonable, which means that we hit our release dates without panic and long hours.

Requirements

  • C++ expert
  • Experience creating commercial quality custom user interfaces
  • Experience writing cross-platform code
  • Deep knowledge of at least one of these: Nokia Qt Framework, Win32, Cocoa
  • Image processing as it relates to UI development: compositing, resampling, image formats

Plusses

  • Developed a finished commercial software product
  • Experience writing plug-ins for Photoshop or any other host product
  • C# and .NET
  • Objective-C

Benefits

  • Very competitive salary
  • We pay for 100% of health insurance for you, your spouse/partner, and kids.
  • We match up to 5% of your salary in a retirement savings plan.
  • We share about 15% of profits with employees.
  • Generous maternity/paternity policy
  • Everyone gets their own quiet office.
  • Any tools you want (Aeron chair, fast computer, 3 monitors, freeze ray, etc.)
  • Espresso machine, healthy snacks, and lunch delivered once each week
  • $1000 donation to your favorite charity once each year
  • We’re located near downtown Raleigh, not in the Research Triangle Park

How to Apply
E-mail cover letter, resume, and salary requirements to . Please, no recruiters.