Job Information
Amazon Sr Software Development Engineer, Inspire & Amazon Native Player (ANP) in San Francisco, California
Description
Are you a passionate mobile full stack developer with Android/iOS and React Native expertise? Looking for a fun and fast paced team where your work is featured in the Amazon mobile app? Then this is your opportunity to build the next generation of Amazon mobile first Shopping Experiences. Your work will be seen by billions of shoppers and will be featured throughout the Amazon mobile app. Inspire is Amazon's mobile only discovery, browse, and social shopping experience, and you will play a critical role in the architecture of backend services, implementing new React Native features for Amazon customers, and work across product and personalization teams to bring Amazon inspirational and social shopping into the future.
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr Software Development Engineer on the Inspire and Amazon Native Player (ANP) team you build new features for the Amazon mobile app such as: Liking/Hearting Content, Sharing, and Follows for the creators of content. You integrate personalization and recommendation algorithms from our industry leading personalization team. When you need to think strategically you are part of the team that envisions the future of inspirational and social shopping, and you develop technical and architectural roadmaps to achieve new experiences for navigating content (videos) and products.
About the team
Our team thrives on experimentation and building immersive experiences on the Amazon mobile app. Our mission is to become Earth’s most loved destination for recreational shopping and serendipitous discovery. To achieve the mission we work with designers and product managers to envision a seemingly endless number of potential experiences we could build and prioritize the best of the best to build experiments from. Sr SDEs on our team are constantly seeing their work evolve on the Amazon app and you almost always have something new to show your friends and family that you just launched on the app!
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
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 committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $134,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.