Audible

Software Development Engineer, Playback Team

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7 hours ago
Newark, NJ, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable software components and applications for Audible’s audio advertising products.
  • Own critical infrastructure, real-time ad serving pipelines, and systems processing billions of annual ad opportunities.
  • Optimize ad serving latency, infrastructure cost, and business metrics at scale.
  • Collaborate with Product, Applied Science, stakeholders, and cross-functional engineering teams to define, design, and launch customer-centric solutions.
  • Apply data structures, algorithms, and diverse design approaches to solve complex technical problems.
  • Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and influence engineering team decisions.
  • Mentor and lead developers while fostering software quality, maintainability, and technical understanding.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering expertise and the ability to design, architect, and implement scalable intelligent systems.
  • Proficiency in data structures and algorithms and their practical application.
  • Ability to independently clarify technical requirements, estimate development work, and evaluate design approaches.
  • Ability to write scalable, maintainable, high-quality code and contribute effectively on a collaborative engineering team.
  • Ability to translate complex business challenges into scalable software and machine learning solutions.
  • Ability to mentor developers and provide technical leadership.

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About Audible

1,001-5,000 employees

Stories are transformative. They have the power to create new possibilities—for our lives, and for those around us. That’s why we work with some of the world’s greatest creators, producing Originals, audiobooks and podcasts that ignite imaginations and bring new ideas and voices to our millions of listeners around the globe each day. With this customer-centric approach to innovation, Audible has reinvented a media category and is the driving force behind the audio entertainment revolution.

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