Android Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Alexa Mobile
$129.3-223.6k
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$129.3-223.6k
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for passionate, hard working software engineers who have experience building innovative, mobile applications that customers love and will enhance their day to day capabilities
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Experience with object-oriented design
Desirable
- 3+ 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
- 2+ years of professional non-internship experience with Android software development using Java/Kotlin
- Expertise in Android SDK, Android Studio and UI/UX design principles. Strong understanding of mobile app architecture, Android's UI framework
- Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
- Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts
- Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices
- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
What the job involves
- We're focused on building the next generation of the Alexa Mobile App for mobile devices and are looking for talented Android developers
- You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of a cutting edge mobile product used every day
- * Mobile application software development, design and prototyping
- * Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop highly innovative, consumer-facing Android mobile app architecture
- * Proficient in Android development languages, libraries, such as Java, Kotlin, Gradle
- * Experience defining front end architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs
- * Experience developing highly interactive user experiences and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability on the client side
- * Writing clean, maintainable code and performing peer code-reviews
- * Writing tests for new and existing code to drive code coverage to 100%
- * Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility
- * Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules
- * Work closely with product and design teams to customize the Alexa experience on mobile devices
- You will be responsible for leading the development and launch of core features
- You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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