Software Development Engineer II, IMDb iOS App, IMDb

IMDb is the worlds most popular and authoritative source for movie TV and celebrity content with an audience of more than 250 million unique monthly visitors on web and mobile apps. At IMDb youll be joining a team of seasoned leaders who value execution and decision making at the speed of startups but with the backing and resources of Amazon. As a Mobile Apps engineer you will have the opportunity to use Amazon technologies from all over the company to build amazing products which will be used directly by fans and industry professionals around the world. We are looking for a strong iOS Mobile App engineer to join our Apps Team and lead the effort of building engaging and personalized user experiences in our hugely popular apps including IMDb Movies & TV and IMDbPro.

At IMDb you can expect a culture of ambitious but achievable product development built in short iterations with lots of experimentation. We celebrate team and personal milestones and value balanced lifestyles that enable us to be refreshed and productive each day. Best of all we share a passion for entertainment; we meet regularly with our founder and colleagues to discuss current films shows and events.

Key job responsibilities
In this role you will develop new features for IMDb working with your engineering team product managers and UX designers to build native iOS features that delight our customers. You will own customer facing features through the entire life-cycle from design implementation testing deployment and into production. You will need to be comfortable going deep on a variety of areas such as video playback advertising and native app components as well as working with our API layer to define the next iteration of our schema to power our apps. You will work to maintain a high quality bar for our code and our customers. You will optimize iOS apps for performance reliability and security. Youll share your ideas on how we can work more effectively.
You are not limited to iOS application development but will also have the opportunities to work on technical designs and implementations of backend services and APIs that power mobile app functionalities.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 2 years of Apple platform development experience

- 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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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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