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# SDM, Mobile App Foundations

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $184,900.0 - $250,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Mobile Application Development, Software Quality, Code Review, Mobile Application Software, Software Product Management, Software Engineering, Web Services, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10501535/sdm-mobile-app-foundations

## About the Role

You are a technical leader looking to build and expand on your passion for mobile devices. You want to challenge yourself to solve complex problems at scale that have never been encountered anywhere else. You want to exercise and expand your creative thinking skills and technical chops to become an even deeper expert in the mobile space. You are passionate about mobile and want to work with an equally passionate and driven team to invent new technologies to disrupt the world of application development on mobile devices. You want to learn from others and help challenge yourself and others to grow. You want to talk directly to your customers and partners to shape the vision for code quality, design and architecture for the mobile app development stack. You enjoy managing a team and helping engineers grow their skills., 3+ years of engineering team management experience

 - 7+ years of engineering experience
 - 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
 - Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
 - Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

 - Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
 - Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

## Description

Lead a team to accelerate mobile development

 - Influence design and architecture by sharing your mobile application development expertise
 - Participate in the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters, including test plan execution and software quality needs.
 - Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or mobile application, and serve as a technical lead on complex projects.
 - Build software solutions where the problem is not well defined.
 - Design and define the interaction between the solution components and other systems where applicable.


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