Manager of Software Engineering

About Fantasy Entertainment ®
Fantasy Entertainment ®, headquartered in Hudson, NH is the largest owner operator of electronic selfservice photo imaging systems in North America. Founded in 1995, the privately held company owns and operates 3,000 entertainment photo imaging kiosks such as FotoFun® Strips, Portrait Studio® and Sketch Express TM.

Fantasy Entertainment is currently exporting self-service photo imaging systems to over 25 countries and was named SBA's "2004 NH Small Business Exporter of the Year." Fantasy has booths located within marquis destinations such as: Disney, Sea World, Six Flags, major mall developers, zoos, museums, aquariums, casinos and hundreds of other high traffic outlets and tourist locations. "ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" has also featured their product, FotoFun Strips on a recent episode.

Software Engineering Manager

Using your expert technical knowledge of Fedora/Linux and C/C++, you will lead a small but diverse team of software and hardware engineering staff to deliver systems and software that support a very cool product ~ photo booths!  Our business customers include industry giants in the fields of tourism, major mall developers, and large cinema chains.  You will design and manage the development talent of our Fedora/Linux based software platform for highly graphical applications throughout the product life cycle. 

Required Skills:

While expert level knowledge of Linux and C/C++ is critical, Java, HTML, Java script, Linux device driver  interface, X, browser based development, GNU tools, USB low level, multimedia development including video/graphic/sound, Bluetooth, cellular technology and 802.11G development, and Windows experience would be huge pluses! 

In this position, you will work as both a high level individual contributor and as the mentor and manager of a very skilled, creative team of developers.  We are a very fast paced, collaborative, dynamic business with multiple projects both in new product development and in the support of our existing legacy products.  If you aim to keep your hands in development while growing your career into a management and leadership role, this could be the right opportunity for you!