Software Development Engineer MobileX

Amazon Mobile Shopping is one of the fastest growing strategic businesses within Amazon. Our scale is billions of dollars and millions of customers. Our team is responsible for creating the best shopping experience for customers wherever they go on their favorite devices. We are passionate about building scalable welldesigned software. We constantly improve our technical foundation and user experience. As an engineer on the MobileX team youll have huge impact on how customers even friends and family interact with Amazon.

We love to work with smart people who have a strong sense of ownership and strong engineering mindset. You provide mobile perspective and context for technology choices. Youre up to the challenge of device and mobile network limitations device fragmentation and other mobile development curve balls. You are motivated to tackle ambiguous situations with new technologies to rapidly produce prototypes. You will make the most out of tools like ObjectiveC Swift Java Kotlin React Native ES6 and play an integral role in reshaping what it means to shop on a mobile device. You outline paths from prototype to product. You are a technical leader for your team. You contribute to the professional development of colleagues improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices on your team.

About the hiring team:

We created the MobileX team to explore new ways for Amazon customers to complete common shopping tasks quicker browse more efficiently and discover new features. Even as one of the mostinstalled apps worldwide were still learning how to make the right decisions for customers and how to educate them about new features. We build new iOS & Android features addressing customer frustrations and innovate on core shopping functions like the personalized navigation menu location awareness and browsing; identifying core shopping experiences that are not mobile optimized and fix them. We spend a lot of time thinking about what mobile shopping means and how we do it correctly with strong partnerships between dev product and design competencies. Our toughest problems are crafting worldclass UX experiences and every pixel matters to our customers. We are innovators at heart and mobile App customer experience is paramount to us.


3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.