Software Development Engineer App Performance, Mobile App Foundations

How would you like to impact hundreds of millions of customers around the world and empower hundreds of engineers daily Mobile Shopping is one of the fastest growing strategic businesses within Amazon. Our team owns how the Amazon shopping apps perform on Android and iOS. We make sure they start fast respond instantly and stay smooth as hundreds of teams add new features.

Do you want to solve complex problems at the scale of the Amazon Mobile Shopping app Do you want to build the tools that measure optimize and safeguard app startup latency and runtime performance Do you want to explore how AI can detect diagnose and resolve performance issues before customers notice Do you want to work with talented tenured engineers who help each other grow Then we would like to hear from you!

Key job responsibilities
- Design implement and support robust and stable solutions across Amazons mobile shopping apps
- Profile and optimize app startup latency and runtime performance across critical customer code paths
- Build the systems and tooling that automatically catch performance regressions before they reach millions of mobile Shoppers
- Develop systems that support AI-assisted mobile development at scale exploring approaches like automated anomaly detection and root-cause diagnosis
- Partner with dozens of teams across Amazon to improve performance-critical code paths and remove bottlenecks
- Help raise the bar for mobile development as we change the way we develop mobile apps

About the team
Our team owns app performance for the Amazon Shopping apps on iOS and Android. Every startup tap and scroll that millions of customers experience runs through the systems we build. We measure how the apps perform optimize the paths that matter most and build the tooling that keeps performance from regressing as hundreds of teams ship new features.

We are a group of engineers who like hard problems help each other grow and take pride in work that hundreds of teams and millions of customers depend on daily.

- 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 modern language such as Java C or C# including 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
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- 2 years of Android development experience
- 2 years of Apple platform development experience

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually

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