Software Development Engineer - Mobile Shopping Foundations

DescriptionAre 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 teams collaborate to launch delightful customer experiences on the mobile shopping apps?Amazon Mobile Shopping is looking for a 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.We want a seasoned Software Developer to deliver the next-generation experience building blocks, that represent content and its layout, and are used to create surface agnostic experiences.You are skilled in iOS or Android and will help 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 the app. The foundation you build will power all of it, releasing globally several dozen times per year. 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 mobile technologies, like React Native, 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.About us:Amazons BuilderWorks organization leverages our expertise to deliver frameworks and tools to enable feature teams to build the best shopping experiences for our customers. We work full stack, from foundational backend systems to future-forward user interfaces. Our orgs culture is centered on rapid prototyping, rigorous experimentation, and data-driven decision-making. We run hundreds of experiments each year and our work has revolutionized e-commerce by supporting innovative features such as Buy Again, recommended for you. We care deeply about our customers, as well as the well being and growth of our team members. Amazons internal surveys regularly recognize us as engineering organizations with visible high-impact work, respectful work/life balance, and the continual opportunity to learn and grow. This is a track record we are proud of and will continue to uphold. We are looking for creative and innovative leaders with a similar penchant for deeply-technical problem solving and the ability to lead, mentor, and deliver while upholding Amazons Leadership Principles.Interested? Have the passion to build and drive to ship all of this with us? Were waiting to talk to you. Lets get started!About the teamWe have the autonomy to decide where we can have the most impact and get down to building. Our projects are born from the ground up and engineers are encouraged to pitch ideas and lead them to completion. Our primary mission is to enhance the app-wide shopping experiences: We use our expertise in mobile native development, React Native, and open source tooling to uncover opportunities to improve customer experience across the app. We move fast by validating prototypes and running experiments. We quickly reject ideas that dont 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 teamPreferred 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 programming with at least one modern mobile programming language such as Java, Objective-C, Swift or Kotlin and experience programming with React Native.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.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/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.