Description
About the Role
The Discovery Team in App Experiences manages features and systems to help communities form, grow, and thrive on Twitch. These features let people participate in their favorite communities and discover new ones more efficiently.
We work hard to bring novel opportunities to the world of streaming both individually and in collaboration with similar streamers. Our consumer-facing features span both web and mobile surfaces, and we're working hard to build fast, reliable, and easy-to-understand client-side experiences.
This position is primarily focused across the entire stack (React and Golang) but will lean initially more toward backend systems, with future efforts moving more client-side.
Responsibilities
- Work with product managers, technical leads, and other engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate interactive experiences
- Investigate, instrument, and solve performance problems
- Build distributed applications at scale
- Collaborate with both your team and related teams - fostering shared understanding of how to solve common problems and deliver solutions
- Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact
Requirements
- 1+ years of experience developing software in a professional environment
- Prior experience building consumer-facing products at scale
- Proficient coding skills in modern languages and frameworks such as React, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, etc.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Bonus Points
- Experience with languages/frameworks used at Twitch: React, Typescript, Golang
- Experience with mobile development
Perks
- Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Maternity and parental leave
- Flexible PTO
- Amazon employee discount
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Job ID: TW9170
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
US, CA, San Francisco$127,100-$185,000 USD