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Lead Software Development Engineer

Amazon· Audible Creator Team
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Culver City, CA$168.1k - $227.4kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Lead Software Development Engineer for Audible’s Creator Team. Build and maintain tools to automate the content production pipeline, enabling creators to focus on creation while delivering best-in-class experiences to listeners. Focus on AI-first development, scalable software, and collaboration with stakeholders to design, develop, test, and launch maintainable solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Champion an AI-first development approach to multiply developer productivity and drive adoption of AI-assisted practices across the organization
  • 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

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 experience
  • 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

Skills

Required:AI-first developmentSoftware architectureMentorship/leadershipWeb applications & services

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 and restricted stock units (RSUs) included in overall package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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