Software Development Engineer, iOS

Amazon • Newark, NJ

1d • $158,100 - $213,800 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Software Development Engineer, it's up to you to 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, including modern AI-assisted development tooling. 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or equivalent
• Experience working with agile development methodologies
• 3+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years of experience building mobile applications on at least one platform: iOS (Objective-C/Swift), Android (Kotlin/Java), or mobile web (JavaScript/TypeScript)
• UI skills with a modern mobile UI framework (e.g., SwiftUI/UIKit, Jetpack Compose, or a web framework such as React)
• Experience in documentation, unit testing, code reviews, test automation, continuous integration & deployment
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., coding assistants, agentic coding workflows)

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Rust, Java, C/C++), and a solid understanding of the Linux operating system
• Experience across more than one mobile platform (iOS, Android, and/or mobile web)
• Recent experience building enterprise-scale mobile applications
• Experience building mobile UI with modern declarative frameworks (e.g., SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, or component-based web such as React), including responsive and adaptive layouts, navigation, state management, accessibility, and animations
• Background in caching with support for offline transactions
• Competency in test automation across platforms, including mobile, backend, and integration layers, with enthusiasm for continuous integration/deployment
• Solid coding practices including good design, unit testing, peer code reviews
• Experience with cross-functional test infrastructure, such as designing integration test suites, API contract testing, or contributing to shared test automation frameworks
• Experience using AI-assisted tooling throughout the software development lifecycle, including code generation, testing, code review, debugging, and documentation, and building automation or agentic workflows that raise team productivity

Responsibilities

• Own and be responsible for key components within the team
• Design, develop, implement and support Key Components using latest technology that will influence teams beyond Audible
• Work with Product Management and take the lead to help create, design and develop software that involves exploring and bringing out the latest technology on the platform to make the listening experience better and easier for our users
• Take every opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture and implementation of cutting edge mobile based products
• Provide technical direction and strategy to the team, drive the system architecture, spearhead the best practices and influence peer teams with brown-bag sessions and hackathons
• Stay up to date on the latest trends & technologies industry-wide and sharing that knowledge with the internal community
• Be committed to teamwork, hustle and strong communication skills (both to business and technical peers)
• Thrive in delivering high-quality technology mobile products in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
• Demonstrate your experience in problem-solving in ambiguous situations
• Write and maintain unit tests, integration tests, and UI tests to ensure code quality and prevent regressions
• Champion test automation practices within the team, improving test coverage and CI pipeline reliability
• Adopt and advocate for AI-assisted development practices that improve team productivity and code quality.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level