Ios developer Jobs in Boston, MA

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
As a Software Development Engineer, it’s up to you to define, design and refine the tech that keeps us one step ahead of listeners. Anticipate. Innovate. Bring challenging ideas and we’ll support you with the latest tech, tools and systems that you need to succeed. You’ll be essential in ensuring the team can reach their potential; working closely with them, reviewing their work, mentoring, and supporting them to develop. Together, you’ll build and maintain our platform to bring thousands of stories to millions of listeners and unleash the power of the human voice.

ABOUT THE TEAM
It takes a curated team to pack the entire Audible library into the palm of your hand, but we make it happen seamlessly, for millions of people across the world. The team's vision is to enable a friction-less experience allowing Audible customers to listen and engage with the largest Audiobook portfolio. We work ceaselessly to deliver world-class products that scale for millions of daily listener sessions across the entire eco-system including the iPhone, Carplay, Apple Watch, and living room devices. We are a nimble team with a game-changing mindset, endless passion, and user focus. We use AI to make the app experience more personal for every customer, helping listeners discover and engage with the content they’ll love.

ABOUT YOU
You are talented, adaptable, and flexible. We’re looking for creative, open-minded Software Development Engineers to help build technologies that continuously improve the Audible listening experience. While focusing on iOS development you’ll build and scale mobile software, and coordinate cross-functionally by integrating new features, maintaining high performance, and creating intuitive interfaces. Our team is working on building native iOS products, without compromising compatibility with various iOS devices in an agile environment. Your primary focus is iOS, and we like for engineers to grow into full-stack work over time. Backend experience isn’t required—just a willingness to learn and contribute across the stack.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will...
- Own and be responsible for key components within the team
- Build AI-driven, personalized features that adapt to each customer and make the listening experience smarter and more intuitive
- Design, develop, implement and support Key Components using latest technology that will influence teams beyond Audible
- Work with Product Management and take the lead to help create, design and develop software that involves exploring and bringing out the latest technology on the platform to make the listening experience better and easier for our users
- Take every opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture and implementation of mobile based products
- Provide technical direction and strategy to the team, drive the system architecture, spearhead the best practices and influence peer teams with brown-bag sessions and hackathons
- Stay up to date on the latest trends & technologies industry-wide and sharing that knowledge with the internal community
- Be committed to teamwork, hustle and strong communication skills (both to business and technical peers)
- Thrive in delivering high-quality technology mobile products in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
- Demonstrate your experience in problem-solving in ambiguous situations

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with agile development
- 1+ years of experience in Objective-C or Swift
- UI skills with knowledge of SwiftUI or UIKit
- Experience in documentation, unit testing, code reviews, test automation, continuous integration & deployment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Working knowledge of dependency injection, operations/promises, and modular development
- 1+ years of experience in designing and developing iOS Applications using Swift, Objective-C
- Recent experience building enterprise-scale mobile applications
- Experience building mobile UI with SwiftUI or UIKit, especially Auto Layout and related SDKs, including use of storyboard and animations
- Background in caching with support for offline transactions
- Competency in automation, enthusiasm for continuous integration/deployment or Chaos Engineering
- Solid Coding practices including good design, unit testing, peer code reviews
- Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices, including coding standards, source code management & build processes
- Exposure to backend development, or a willingness to contribute to backend services that power app features

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