Amazon Android Software Development Engineer Alexa Mobile 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

221390245

Key job responsibilities
* Mobile application software development, design and prototyping
* Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop highly innovative, consumer-facing Android mobile app architecture.
* Proficient in Android development languages, libraries, such as Java, Kotlin, Gradle
* Experience defining front end architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.
* Experience developing highly interactive user experiences and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability on the client side.
* Writing clean, maintainable code and performing peer code-reviews
* Writing tests for new and existing code to drive code coverage to 100%
* 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
* Work closely with product and design teams to customize the Alexa experience on mobile devicesA day in the life
You will be responsible for leading the development and launch of core features. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product.

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Experience with object-oriented design

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 2+ years of professional non-internship experience with Android software development using Java/Kotlin.
- Expertise in Android SDK, Android Studio and UI/UX design principles. Strong understanding of mobile app architecture, Android's UI framework
- Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
- Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts.
- Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.