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Job summary
Amazon Music
Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions. Picture working on cutting-edge consumer-facing products, where every single team member is a critical voice in the decision-making process. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up. Welcome to Amazon Music, where ideas are born and come to life as Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music, and so much more.
Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music streaming, and customer engagement. We are looking for new team members across a variety of job functions including software engineering/development, marketing, design, ops and more. Come join us as we make history by launching exciting new projects in the coming year.
Our team is focused on building a personalized, curated, and seamless music experience. We want to help our customers discover up-and-coming artists, while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build systems that are distributed on a large scale, spanning our music apps, web player, and voice-forward audio engagement on mobile and Amazon Echo devices, powered by Alexa to support our customer base. Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world, and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives.
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to lead architecture and development for Amazon Music experiences in the Amazon Music App, native iOS / Android as well as Web technologies. This role is one of full ownership for features – from design to development & deployment. In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute significantly to the future of Amazon Music. You will be part of a strong team in a fast-paced, start-up like environment where agile development is embraced and innovation & thinking big is encouraged.
Come innovate with the Amazon Music team!
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
Architect, design, develop and deploy new features for our iOS and Android apps, working with multiple back-end teams.
Collaborate with product and UX teams to develop maintainable features.
Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop highly innovative, consumer-facing iOS and Android apps.
Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.
Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology, and evaluate technical feasibility.
Actively collaborate with Product Managers and UX Designers to shape the user experience
Work in an agile / scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules.
Establish architectural principles, select design patterns, and mentor team members on their appropriate application.
Help define and implement standards and promote best practices for the mobile development team.
Analyze and optimize applications to maximize speed and scale, factoring in mobile network latency and bandwidth constraints