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About Us:

Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.

We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X, and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process.

About the Role:

On our team you’ll be primarily working to improve our Application Performance, making our mobile experiences faster. We also own and support Twitch Chat, you’ll be working with large-scale services and partnering with other teams at Twitch regularly. This position is primarily focused on frontend development (React) but is expected to be fullstack, with some responsibilities around supporting and maintaining backend systems.

You Will

• 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

Perks:

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount

About the team
The Application Experiences org builds products that help communities connect with each other, and ways for viewers to find and interact with their favourite content. We are exploring how we can evolve the mobile experience, as well as deliver performant and delightful experiences across mobile and web.

Basic Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software development experience
• 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 Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure
• Experience with languages/frameworks we use at Twitch: React, Typescript, Golang
• Experience with mobile development (although, this is not a mobile development role)
• Experience building software and services using AWS technologies such as ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions
• Familiarity with Twitch, gaming, and/or streaming on Twitch

Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, SAN FRANCISCO - 127,100.00 - 185,000.00 USD annually
USA, CA, San Francisco - 127,100.00 - 185,000.00 USD annually