Lead Software Engineer — Architect, Mentor & Scale Systems

Audible; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Audible, based in Newark, NJ, is seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer for its Consumer Domains group. You will own end-to-end software strategy, design scalable APIs, and mentor teams delivering high-quality experiences across web and mobile.

You will influence technical direction, partner with product and UX, and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and security while staying current with industry trends and best practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Determine the strategy and where to simplify or extend solutions for the best outcome, drive the use of best practices, and learn to influence and force multiply.
• Mentor and lead developers by cultivating curiosity and deep technical understanding.
• Explore technical needs and bring solutions to the table.
• Set the technical strategy for your team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to imagine, design, develop, test, and launch scalable and maintainable software that impacts our customers and inspires your peers.
• Independently clarify technical requirements, assessing development estimates and apply a broad range of design approaches.
• Drive continuous improvement of software quality, customer experience, and maintainability of products/features.
• Stay on top of technology trends, tools, and approaches.

Skills

Leadership

Software architecture

Mentoring

SDLC

REST APIs

AWS

Tools

AWS

REST APIs

Job description

Audible, based in Newark, NJ, is seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer for its Consumer Domains group. You will own end-to-end software strategy, design scalable APIs, and mentor teams delivering high-quality experiences across web and mobile.

You will influence technical direction, partner with product and UX, and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and security while staying current with industry trends and best practices.