Yamaha Guitar Group, home to iconic brands like Line 6, Ampeg, Córdoba, and Guild, is at the forefront of innovation and creativity in designing and building equipment for guitarists. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team!
Yamaha Guitar Group is a small company, so our ideal candidate is able to work cross-functionally and collaborate to find the best solutions to complex problems. Our company has a unique culture, including game nights, company “jams”, and corporate sustainability and responsibility efforts to constantly improve our impact globally.
This Role will ideally be hybrid based from our Calabasas office.

This role will design, develop, and maintain mobile and native software systems for music products used by musicians worldwide. Independently build applications using in house tools, libraries and APIs to create complete customer facing features. Implement and design compelling graphic user interfaces using latest design practices. Collaborate daily with software developers, firmware engineers, product designers, and product testers. Contribute to product definition and design. Learn from other engineers, and enjoy a creative development environment with a motivated team.

Essential Job Description

• Research, design, and develop software applications and systems for music creation
• Use object-oriented techniques to create cross-platform software applications primarily using C, C++, Objective C, C#, Swift, Kotlin and Java programming languages for macOS, Windows, iOS/iPadOS and Android
• Design graphic user interfaces which enable excellent user experience for all target customers
• Analyze software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints
• Collaborate with embedded software engineers to optimize the interface between hardware and software
• Develop software system testing procedures, programming, and documentation.
• Work with the Product Test group to ensure reliability

Experience/Qualifications
What you Bring to the table

• Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent experience
• 5+ Years’ experience developing and delivering customer facing applications
• Knowledge of object oriented programming principals and design patterns
• Proficiency in C/C++
• Experience with multi-threading and synchronization
• Experience programming with UI frameworks
• Ability to write high-quality software and meet deadlines
• Experience with C#, Objective-C, Swift, Kotlin, and Java programming
• Agile Software Development experience
• Knowledge of digital audio principles
• Experience with test driven development

What We Bring To The Table

• Salary range $105,000 - $130,000 DOE
• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Vision, Dental, LTD, Life-Insurance and 401k
• Employee Assistance wellness programs
• Employee product purchase program
• Flexible work options
• Casual dress
• Vacation, sick-time, personal time, volunteer time
• 9 Company Holidays, 2 floating Holiday

So if you want to help us define the next generation of music products and instruments, we’d love to hear from you!

Yamaha Guitar Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer and provides reasonable accommodations consistent with its legal obligations.

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