Job Description

At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

This opportunity is for a Software Development Director for Audible’s Apps and Consumption Services team. We are embarking on a mission to reshape the fundamental experiences, delight our customers, and reshape how development is done across all surfaces and devices within Audible. It's our responsibility to push Audible into new places; wherever our customers are listening. Achieving this vision means expanding and strengthening Continuous Deployment across surfaces; new technologies like CarPlay, Watch, HomeKit, Common Encryption Standard media, and adaptive live streaming; as well as driving a strong engineering culture with processes like Chaos Engineering and A/B Testing.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Audible customers spend most of their time with Audible in either the Library or Player components of our application across FireOS, Android, iOS, and Web. This cross-platform team is responsible for building an audio listening platform that will improve how millions of Audible members hear and interact with spoken word content. We are on a journey to build an audio listening platform designed and optimized for the spoken word over other forms of audio entertainment so that comprehension and emotional impact is maximized for the listener. We own the end-to-end audio listening experience which includes player clients for web, iOS & Android, content security & digital rights management, content delivery infrastructure, and processing / synchronization of listening data across devices at a massive scale.

If you are ready to become a part of a culture that celebrates innovation and independent thought and want to use your passion and creativity to improve the daily lives of listeners around the world, we have a place for you on our team – come join us.

As a Director of Software Development, you will...

1. Own and lead full life cycle delivery of cross functional projects spanning teams across Audible and Amazon
2. Drive development and operational excellence of our flagship solutions
3. Coach and mentor our high-performing engineers to help them grow their skills, enhance their knowledge of our systems and their ability to get things done
4. Partner with cross-functional teams to imagine, design, develop, test, and launch software that wows our community and inspires our peers
5. Constantly strive to raise the bar on delivery performance and quality in a fast agile environment
6. Lead 1-2 Scrum teams

ABOUT AUDIBLE

Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. Our Hub+Home hybrid workplace model gives employees the flexibility between gathering in a common office space (work from hub) and remote work (work from home). For more information, please visit adbl.co/hybrid.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams
• 5+ years experience of software development and deployment of distributed multi-tier applications
• Experience partnering with product OR program management teams
• 3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
• 3+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• 3+ years experience managing agile software projects across multiple and geographically distributed teams
• 2+ years of experience in Mobile Application Development environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• iOS, Android, and Fullstack Software Engineering experience
• Results oriented and with a strong customer focus
• Action-oriented strategic thinker
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment - where change is the only constant
• Detail oriented to ensure that project success is paramount
• Strong verbal and communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and an out of the box thinker
• Self-starter with the ability to multi-task and work in a very fast paced environment
• Highly autonomous - delivers with little guidance
• Strong mentor of peers and subordinates
• Strong understanding of current Mobile Ecosystem (Android & iOS API’s, Android Auto, Car Play, Swift, Kotlin, Apple App Store, Google PlayStore, etc.)

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