Description

IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content with an audience of more than 250 million unique monthly visitors on web and mobile apps, and over 100 million Android app downloads on Google Play. At IMDb, you'll be joining a team of seasoned leaders who value execution and decision making at the speed of startups, but with the backing and resources of Amazon. As a Mobile Apps engineer, you will have the opportunity to use Amazon technologies from all over the company to build amazing products, which will be used directly by fans and industry professionals around the world. We are looking for a strong Android/full stack development engineer to join our Mobile Apps Team and lead the effort of building engaging and personalized user experiences in our hugely popular Android apps including IMDb Movies & TV and IMDbPro.

At IMDb, you can expect a culture of ambitious but achievable product development, built in short iterations with lots of experimentation. We celebrate team and personal milestones, and value balanced lifestyles that enable us to be refreshed and productive each day. Best of all, we share a passion for entertainment; we meet regularly with our founder and colleagues to discuss current films, shows, and events.

Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will develop new features for IMDb, working with your engineering team, product managers, and UX designers to build native Android features that delight our customers. You will own customer facing features through the entire life-cycle, from design, implementation, testing, deployment and into production. You will need to be comfortable going deep on a variety of areas such as video playback, advertising, and native app components as well as working with our API layer to define the next iteration of our schema to power our apps. You will work to maintain a high quality bar for our code and our customers. You will optimize Android apps for performance, reliability and security. You'll share your ideas on how we can work more effectively.

You are not limited to Android application development, but will also have the opportunities to work on technical designs and implementations of backend services and APIs that power mobile app functionalities.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

• 1+ years of Android development experience

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.