A Career at HARMAN Lifestyle
We’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. As a member of HARMAN Lifestyle, you connect consumers with the power of superior sound.
- Contribute your talents to high-end, esteemed brands like JBL, Mark Levinson and Revel
- Unite your passion for audio innovation with high-tech product development
- Create pitch-perfect, cutting-edge technology that elevates the listening experience
About the Role
This position is for a Principal Software Engineer with 10+ years of mobile apps experience. The position requires a self-motivated individual with a strong desire to succeed/excel whose main responsibility is designing and developing mobile apps products. As a Principal Software Engineer the candidate is expected to take a leading role in architecture design and get involved in daily development activities. Other responsibilities include following company processes and procedures for firmware development and working closely in a team environment. This individual should have a strong, positive attitude and the ability to easily multitask and provide advice/support to other engineers. They should also possess strong verbal and written communication skills.
What You Will Do
- Provide technical leadership in end to end design, development, and testing of mobile apps.
- Work with technical leads, managers and product stakeholders to define and manage the technical roadmap.
- Prepare and present potential technical solutions and advise the business on approach and tradeoffs.
- Work with developers, business analysts and subject matter experts to understand the complex technological system in order to produce integrated end-to-end solution options.
- Communicate solution approaches to enterprise architects, project team and other stakeholders.
- Keep up-to-date on cutting edge technologies and effectively incorporate that knowledge to our platform roadmap, design and implementation.
- Define the technical requirements for the implementation of the mobile apps solution.
- Preparing technical solutions and architecture documents, artifacts, work products and presentations for the customer.
- Develop, test, and optimize mobile Html5 pages, business feature pages, Hybrid pages, and WebView-based frontend features.
- Identify and resolve common mobile frontend issues, including responsive layout, safe area handling, keyboard behavior, scroll locking, touch interactions, and WebView compatibility.
- Design, build, and maintain reusable frontend components, business modules, utilities, and shared capabilities to improve development efficiency, code quality, and maintainability.
What You Need to Be Successful
- Bachelor degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering. Master degree is preferred.
- 10+ years of mobile application software development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience building consumer facing mobile NATIVE (Android) and HYBRID solutions.
- A thorough understanding of Android, architecture, OOP, design patterns, and experience in mobile application integration.
- Strong proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, with a solid understanding of browser rendering mechanisms, event handling, asynchronous programming, and other frontend fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience with at least one mainstream frontend framework, such as Vue, React, or Angular.
- Experience with TypeScript, large-scale frontend projects, component libraries, or common SDK development is preferred.
- Experience with the Vue ecosystem is preferred, including Vue Router, Pinia/Vuex, Vue CLI/Vite, and a solid understanding of Vue core concepts such as reactivity, lifecycle, virtual DOM, diffing, template compilation, and rendering updates.
- Excellent skills of Java/Kotlin, or Objective-C/Swift; and expert in Android Studio or XCode.
- Deep knowledge of scalability, security and maintainability of high volume mobile applications.
- Experience with mobile apps analytics.
- Expert in SVN, Git CLI / Tools; good understanding of AI and hands‑on experience using AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot.
- Knowledge of HTTPS, UPnP, RESTful API, WebSocket and JSON, XML.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, excellent organizational skills.
- Ability to work in a team environment to meet project deadlines, and a strong desire to excel in an environment with high-quality engineers.
- Strong consciousness of product quality and improvement.
- Experience overseeing team members.
What Makes You Eligible
- Willingness to travel.
- Willingness to work in an office.
- Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.
What We Offer
- Flexible work environment, allowing for full-time remote work one day per week for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location.
- Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.).
- Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University.
- Competitive wellness benefits.
- Access to HARMAN Campus Fitness Center and Cafeteria.
- “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.
- An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.
HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Skills Required
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
- 10+ years of mobile application software development experience
- Strong hands-on experience building consumer facing mobile Native and Hybrid solutions
- Excellent skills of Java/Kotlin, or Objective-C/Swift
- Experience overseeing team members
- Master degree is preferred
Harman Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Harman and has not been reviewed or approved by Harman.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, often including medical, dental, and vision plans, with HSAs/FSAs and disability or life insurance also referenced. Wellbeing support such as EAP access and onsite occupational health services is also part of the package in some regions.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Lifestyle-oriented benefits include employee product discounts and region-specific perks like free fruit deliveries, Cycle to Work schemes, and meal coupons or allowances. Flexible schedules and work-from-home options are also part of the overall offering where roles and projects allow.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is repeatedly characterized as solid or market-aligned for many roles, with salary payments described as consistent and on time. Compensation is also tied to performance in some accounts, reinforcing a perception of basic fairness for a portion of employees.
Harman Insights
What We Do
Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, HARMAN (harman.com) designs and engineers connected products and solutions for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide, including connected car systems, audio and visual products, enterprise automation solutions; and services supporting the Internet of Things. With leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson® and Revel®, HARMAN is admired by audiophiles, musicians and the entertainment venues where they perform around the world. More than 50 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and connected car systems. Our software services power billions of mobile devices and systems that are connected, integrated and secure across all platforms, from work and home to car and mobile. HARMAN has a workforce of approximately 30,000 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In March 2017, HARMAN became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. HARMAN is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. HARMAN offers a great work environment, challenging career opportunities, professional training and competitive compensation. Looking for a challenge where your experience is valued? Come see what you can achieve as a leader with HARMAN!
