Software Development Engineer - Mobile App, Android

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, FireTV, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

The Role:

We're building innovative applications for Android and are looking for talented mobile app developers. You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of a cutting edge mobile product used every day, by people you know. We are looking for passionate, hard working Android software engineers who have experience building innovative, mobile applications that customers love.
In this role, you will:

· Mobile application software development, design and prototyping.
· Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop highly innovative, consumer-facing Android apps.
· Writing clean, maintainable code and performing peer code-reviews.
· Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility
· Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules
· Establish architectural principles, select design patterns and then mentor team members on their appropriate application
· Work closely with product and design teams to customize the Alexa experience on mobile devices
· Implement custom native user interfaces using the latest Android programming techniques
· Analyze and optimize UI and back-end application code for efficiency and performance

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 3-7 years of years of experience building successful production software systems
· A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field)
· 3+ years of object-oriented software development experience with focus on building complex applications for Android devices using Java and other frameworks.
· Experience with multi-threading and mobile device memory management.
· Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.