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Lead Software Development Engineer

Amazon, Newark, New Jersey, us, 07175


Amazon Lead Software Development Engineer

Newark, New JerseyAt Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us.ABOUT THIS ROLEAs a Lead Software Development Engineer, it’s up to you to define, design and refine the tech that keeps us one step ahead of listeners. In this role, you will lead a team to design, develop, test, and deploy capabilities that secure our products, fight fraud, ensure privacy compliance and help other developers and security professionals to do the same.Responsibilities:Gather and analyze business and functional requirements, and translate business requirements into technical design specifications.Write high-quality, efficient, testable code and recommend improvements in development, maintenance, and system standards, and contribute to software documentation.Independently lead complex technical initiatives within your team.Help drive the architecture and technology choices that enable an elegant and practical code.Mentor and lead developers by cultivating curiosity and deep technical understanding.Have a strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.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 delivering customer-driven software products at a high scale in a fast-paced, technology-first, rapid-growth company.Experience in developing technical strategy, and architecting web and APIs.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.Experience with large scale, consumer-facing, enterprise-level applications.Experience in building secure software solutions and delivering capabilities to help others do the same.Experienced with building and architecting on AWS.Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively across teams & multiple division stakeholders.Working experience with Java, microservices, CI/CD, and cross-platform development.Competency at delegating work in parallel to accelerate delivery.Experience taking a lead role delivering complex software systems to internal or external customers.Enthusiasm for promoting high-quality standards in others across: documentation, unit testing, code reviews, test automation, continuous integration, and deployment.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.

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