Software Development Engineer, iOS

Job description

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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, including modern AI-assisted development tooling. 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 iPhone and Android phones, the mobile web, CarPlay and Android Auto, wearables, and living room devices. We are a nimble team with a game-changing mindset, endless passion, and user focus.

ABOUT YOU
You are talented, adaptable, and flexible. We're looking for creative, open-minded mobile software development engineers to help build technologies that continuously improve the Audible listening experience. You may come from an iOS, Android, or mobile web background; what matters is your depth in building and scaling mobile software, your ability to coordinate cross-functionally by integrating new features, maintaining high performance, and creating intuitive interfaces. You bring hands-on experience with testing and test automation in mobile environments. You're familiar with unit, integration, and end-to-end UI testing across the mobile testing pyramid, and you understand how to build and maintain reliable test suites that support continuous delivery. You use AI-assisted development tools (such as coding assistants and agentic workflows) to raise your velocity and quality, and you apply good judgment about where they help. You'll also contribute to quality across the full stack, helping ensure our systems are reliable from the backend through to the user experience, without compromising compatibility across the range of mobile devices and form factors in an agile environment.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will...
- Own and be responsible for key components within the team
- 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 cutting edge 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
- Write and maintain unit tests, integration tests, and UI tests to ensure code quality and prevent regressions
- Champion test automation practices within the team, improving test coverage and CI pipeline reliability
- Adopt and advocate for AI-assisted development practices that improve team productivity and code quality.

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. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or equivalent
- Experience working with agile development methodologies
- 3+ years of software development experience
- 3+ years of experience building mobile applications on at least one platform: iOS (Objective-C/Swift), Android (Kotlin/Java), or mobile web (JavaScript/TypeScript)
- UI skills with a modern mobile UI framework (e.g., SwiftUI/UIKit, Jetpack Compose, or a web framework such as React)
- Experience in documentation, unit testing, code reviews, test automation, continuous integration & deployment
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., coding assistants, agentic coding workflows)

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Rust, Java, C/C++), and a solid understanding of the Linux operating system
- Experience across more than one mobile platform (iOS, Android, and/or mobile web)
- Recent experience building enterprise-scale mobile applications
- Experience building mobile UI with modern declarative frameworks (e.g., SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, or component-based web such as React), including responsive and adaptive layouts, navigation, state management, accessibility, and animations
- Background in caching with support for offline transactions
- Competency in test automation across platforms, including mobile, backend, and integration layers, with enthusiasm for continuous integration/deployment
- Solid coding practices including good design, unit testing, peer code reviews
- Experience with cross-functional test infrastructure, such as designing integration test suites, API contract testing, or contributing to shared test automation frameworks
- Experience using AI-assisted tooling throughout the software development lifecycle, including code generation, testing, code review, debugging, and documentation, and building automation or agentic workflows that raise team productivity

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