Lead Software Development Engineer, Consumer Domains

Job Description

At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s 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

This opportunity is for a Lead Software Development Engineer for Audible’s Consumer Domains group. We are the team that creates and powers Audible’s applications, components, and services for our global listeners across Audible and Amazon web. We are the home for tech talent that wants to grow Audible’s market-leading business and build the sites and services (APIs) across desktop and mobile devices. The team is comprised of developers who work in an agile environment and partner closely with Audible and Amazon tech teams, Product, UX, and QA teams. This role is based in Newark, NJ.

About You

You are an innovative and passionate top software engineer looking to make a positive impact on customer experience. You like to own deliverables end-to-end and have a meaningful influence on the final product. You are a builder. You like to work with fellow engineers and product people to share knowledge, imagine, design, develop, test, and launch software that wows our community and inspires our peers. You're curious and love to learn unprompted as you stay up to date with tools, trends, technologies, and best practices in the industry. You have an interest in Web Application, Services Design & Architecture, SEO, Security, SNS, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, REST services, and Javascript.

Responsibilities

• Determine the strategy and where to simplify or extend solutions for the best outcome, drive the use of best practices, and learn to influence and force multiply.
• Mentor and lead developers by cultivating curiosity and deep technical understanding.
• Explore technical needs and bring solutions to the table.
• Set the technical strategy for your team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to imagine, design, develop, test, and launch scalable and maintainable software that impacts our customers and inspires your peers.
• Independently clarify technical requirements, assess development estimates, and apply a broad range of design approaches.
• Drive continuous improvement of software quality, customer experience, and maintainability of products/features.
• Stay on top of technology trends, tools, and approaches.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of programming experience with one or more modern languages (e.g., Java, C++, C#), including object-oriented design.
• 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• History of assuming responsibility for a team’s architecture and providing a system-wide view to stakeholders.
• Proficient in a broad range of data structures and algorithms, knowing when it is (and isn’t) appropriate to use them.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate highly complex and ambiguous situations independently.
• Able to make improvements to the team’s development and testing processes.
• Experience taking a lead role in delivering complex software systems to internal or external customers.
• Competency at delegating work in parallel to accelerate delivery.
• Enthusiasm for promoting and instilling in others a high-quality standard across documentation, unit testing, code reviews, test automation, continuous integration, and deployment.
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud-based infrastructure and/or developer tools.
• Experience working on a variety of surfaces (full stack), including mobile, web, services, IoT.
• Experience in one or more of the following technologies: blockchain, spatial computing, IoT, ML, AI, VR, AR.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective messaging with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Able to mentor teammates on team software, team culture, and customer obsession.
• Experience building and delivering software systems to internal or external customers.
• Experience writing clear, maintainable, and extensible code.

About Audible

Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers' daily lives. Our Hub+Home hybrid workplace model gives employees the flexibility between gathering in a common office space (work from hub) and remote work (work from home).