At Audible we believe stories have the power to transform lives. Its why we work with some of the worlds 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 ROLE
As a Senior Software Development Engineer its up to you to define design and refine the tech that keeps us one step ahead of listeners. Anticipate. Innovate. Bring challenging ideas and well support you with the latest tech tools and systems that you need to succeed. Youll drive the team forward guiding them over every obstacle and leading the way to develop exciting original and effective solutions. Leading the way youll bring our team together to build and maintain our platform to bring thousands of stories to millions of listeners and unleash the power of the human voice.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Joining our team provides the unique challenge and opportunity to deliver software that benefits many customers around the world. Marketing Technology (MarTech) teams mission is to develop systems and tools that enable marketers to provide customers multitouch personalized and timely messages that enhance the experience of using our services. Customer journey automation and realtime targeting are examples of systems that the team works on. These systems are built using cutting edge technologies and products from AWS like Kinesis S3 EMR Elastic Search etc.
ABOUT YOU
Youre in your element when youre being challenged and youre always eager to share your ideas take on responsibility and keep developing at an exciting pace. We look for people who show initiative set their standards high and see every failure as an opportunity to learn. Youre looking for an environment where you can thrive and help your team reach their potential. With opportunities to challenge yourself and lead a talented team to success youll find what youre looking for at Audible.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer you will...
Independently lead complex technical initiatives within your team
Mentor and support other developers by cultivating curiosity and deep technical understanding
Explore technical needs and bring solutions to the table
Establish and follow good engineering practices
ABOUT AUDIBLE
At Audible we innovate and inspire through the power of voice. Were changing the narrative on storytelling. As a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling weve redefined the ways people access discover and share stories. The stories we tell have the ability to transport and transform everyday moments into meaningful experiences and its our people who make Audibles service possible. Were listeners storytellers and problemsolvers. Our perspectives and experiences power our ideas and come together in our mission to unleash the power of the spoken word.
A day in the life
3 years experience of software development and deployment of distributed multitier applications
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Prior use of AWS technologies at scale in a production environment
Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science
Strong problemsolving skills with the ability to navigate complex and ambiguous situations
History of delivering customerdriven software products at a high scale in a fast paced technology first rapidgrowth company
Full stack proficiency (e.g. Java NoSQL HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript React)
Experience taking a lead role delivering complex software systems to internal or external customers
Competency at delegating work in parallel to accelerate delivery
Enthusiasm for promoting highquality standard in others across: documentation unit testing code reviews test automation continuous integration and deployment
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