Senior Software Development Engineer, Rendering Foundations

Description

Are you passionate about building products used by thousands of engineers to build rich app experiences for hundreds of millions of customers around the world? Ever wondered what operating at Amazon scale looks like? How do several different teams collaborate to quickly deliver rich, federated user experiences at Amazon across mobile app and web?

Amazon Mobile Shopping is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to help build the foundation that powers the best shopping experiences for customers wherever and whenever they shop on their mobile app. Our scale is in billions of dollars and hundreds of millions of users globally. We sweat the details and are passionate about building, testing, and releasing scalable, secure, and performant software. You will build the next generation APIs, mobile rendering frameworks, and tooling that directly impact how customers, family, friends, and even you, engage with Amazon.

We are looking for an experienced Software Developer to deliver the next-generation rendering framework of the Amazon Shopping application for iOS/Android/Mobile web. You will own the full stack of Native, React Native and web rendering frameworks and build industry leading solutions which enables Amazon to deliver more and do it faster. You will work with a talented and diverse team of engineers. Your passion, experience, and drive for engineering and operational excellence will make us an even stronger team. We operate at an unprecedented scale where thousands of developers contribute hundreds of features to our app and mobile web shopping experiences. The foundation you build will power all of it, releasing globally every single day. The ideal candidate loves to dive into the details, tackle complex problems, obsess over quality and test coverage, evangelize automation and technical simplification, all while supporting and promoting app-centric innovation across Amazon.

About you:

You are a software engineer who loves working with both server and mobile client technologies, like React Native/Rust/Java, and building responsive, efficient applications. You understand the importance of scalability when designing solutions. You have great problem solving skills. You love keeping abreast of the latest technology and use it to help you innovate. You have strong leadership qualities, great judgment, clear communication skills, and a track record of delivering great products. You thrive on tackling challenging problems, and love the feeling of accomplishment when you succeed! You obsess over quality and test coverage, evangelize automation and technical simplification, all while supporting and promoting innovation across Amazon.

Key job responsibilities

About the team

We have the autonomy to decide where we can have the most impact and get down to building software unobstructed. Our projects are born from the ground up and engineers are encouraged to pitch ideas, explore ideas and lead them to completion. Our primary mission is to enhance the Amazon-wide shopping experiences: We use our expertise in AI driven mobile development on browser and native app to uncover opportunities to improve customer experience across Amazon Shopping experiences. We move fast by validating prototypes and running experiments. We quickly reject ideas that don’t work and double down on the ones that do.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually