Senior Android Engineer

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Job summary
Good storytelling starts with great listening. At Audible, that means each role and every project has our audience in mind. Because the same people who design, develop, and deploy our products also happen to use them. To us, that speaks volumes.

ABOUT THIS ROLE
As a Software Development Engineer, you will be part of a full-stack team that includes iOS, Android, Web, and API developers. Our core goal is to make cross device development faster and higher quality. You will be a key part of the team for doing cross platform development.

ABOUT THE TEAM
The Audio Experiences group owns the core domains for Audible's Player and Library. Audible customers spend most of their time with Audible in either the Library or Player components of our application across FireOS, Android, iOS, and Web. We are embarking on a mission to reshape the fundamental experiences, delight our customers, and reshape how development is done across all surfaces and devices within Audible. It's our responsibility to push Audible into new places; wherever our customers are listening. Achieving this vision means expanding and strengthening Continuous Deployment across surfaces; new technologies like CarPlay, Watch, HomeKit, Common Encryption Standard media, and adaptive live streaming; as well as driving a strong engineering culture with processes like Chaos Engineering and A/B Testing.

As a Senior Android Engineer, you will...

• Own key components within our platform. "Owning" means envisioning, designing, creating, building, and supporting
• Lead the way - "Lead" means staying up to date with tools, trends, technologies, and frameworks both industry-wide and within Amazon, and sharing that knowledge in a meaningful way with the community
• Partner with product management to imagine, design, develop, test, and launch software that invigorates our community and inspires our peers
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
• Adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
• Professional experience with mobile development in Android.
• Background in synchronizing information across devices with support for offline transactions.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 2 years of experience in designing and developing Android Applications using Java, Android SDK, Studio, APIs, or Frameworks; and experience with object oriented development, multithreading, and data structures.
• Strong data-oriented skills with knowledge of Algorithms and database design.
• Adaptable, enterprising, and willing to take ownership.
• Working knowledge of modern best practices: dependency injection, operations/promises, and modular development.
• A preference for Agile development methodologies.
• Great communication skills—ability to think creatively and adapt the message to the audience. Can provide information to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike and guide them to confidently informed decisions.
• Recent experience building enterprise-scale mobile applications.
• Experience in streaming technologies (HLS, DASH).
• Competency in automation, enthusiasm for continuous integration/deployment or Chaos Engineering.
• Solid Coding practices including good design, unit testing, peer code reviews and a preference for agile methods.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices including coding standards, source code management & build processes.