Amazon Lead Software Development Engineer Content & Royalties Systems 

United States, New Jersey, Newark 

12914527

ABOUT THIS ROLE
As a Lead Software Development Engineer, it’s up to you to research, define, design and refine the tech that keeps us one step ahead of listeners. Anticipate. Innovate. Bring challenging ideas and we’ll support you with the latest tech, tools and systems that you need to succeed. You’ll be essential in ensuring the team can reach their potential; working closely with them, reviewing their work, mentoring, and supporting them to develop. Together, you’ll build and maintain our platform to bring thousands of stories to millions of listeners and unleash the power of the human voice.ABOUT YOU
You will play a vital role in building and enhancing the systems that power our audiobook creation pipeline. From ingestion and encoding to quality control and publishing, our team owns the end-to-end process for transforming audio into magical listening experiences. You will work alongside talented engineers to architect, develop, and maintain the highly scalable and reliable distributed systems that orchestrate audiobook production at massive scale. Leveraging AWS cloud technologies, you'll design robust and efficient solutions to process, validate, and publish audiobook content seamlessly.As a Lead Software Development Engineer, you will...
- Drive architecture and technical strategy for key components, ensuring operational excellence- Continuously raise the bar for engineering excellence
ABOUT AUDIBLE

- 3+ years of programming experience with one or more modern language (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
- 4+ years of professional software development experience
- 2+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead OR leading an engineering team