NOTE: This is a full-time summer internship. This is an in-person developer position, working out of our offices in Pittsburgh on a daily basis.
ABOUT YINZCAM
Our digital and mobile products are used by 200+ sports clubs in the NFL, NBA, LaLiga, MLS, NHL, LigaMX, AFL (Australia), and more. Our Java/SQL/cloud infrastructure serves up terabytes of real-time content and sends billions of push notifications to tens of millions of fans globally. Our infrastructure involves databases, caches, load-balancers, replication, APIs, all of which must work in concert to provide sports fans a real-time game-day experience. We build different products for sports teams, including their official mobile apps, their food-and-beverage ordering, AR experiences, free-to-play games, loyalty programs, and more.
THE ROLE
As a Product Intern focused on Accessibility of Mobile Apps,
- You will be performing an accessibility audit of our mobile apps, to identify and categorize any accessibility improvements we can make.
- You will be responsible for writing iOS or Android code (please let us know which one you are most familiar with) to implement a number of accessibility improvements.
- You will be working to evaluate these accessibility improvements with users.
- You will participate in documenting the tests, implementing them, and reporting the results.
THE REQUIREMENTS
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in writing high-quality iOS or Android code (tell us which one you are most familiar with)
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in working with proxy tools, such as Charles Proxy, ProxyMan, etc.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in working with RESTful APIs and interfacing with databases and backend services, including familiarity with JSON, REST and XML.
- Familiarity with accessibility standards, techniques, and practices for mobile apps and web-based applications.
- Strong CS fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, networking, memory management, distributed systems, operating systems, synchronization, and relational databases.
- An innate passion for accessibility and programming.
- Strong networking fundamentals, including knowledge of common network protocols and wire formats (e.g. HTTP) and debugging of network-level issues (e.g. packet captures, proxying)
THE PERKS
- Paid Coursera plan to take 8000+ courses around the world
- Beverages and snacks
- The opportunity to work on products for well-known sports teams
