Android Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Twitch's Mobile Engineering team is responsible for developing viewing applications for the Android and iOS platforms, supporting phone, tablet and set-top devices. These platforms represent an ever-growing share of Twitch viewership and providing functional and delightful experiences on them is essential to user engagement. As an Android Software Engineer, you will make major contributions to a rapidly-evolving, native app that is a portal to the Twitch community for millions of users. In the past year, our engineers have:

* Leveraged Kotlin to update our UI components and architecture - the majority of our codebase is now written in Kotlin
* Collaborated with product and design teams to deliver many features, improvements, and PogChamps to customers around the world
* Powered up our video-playing architecture to go from one to three simultaneous streams without impacting performance or power consumption
* Started migrating our network stack from REST to GraphQL
* Defined and started building a highly capable mobile developer platform that empowers our team to build a delightful and robust customer experience

Responsibilities

* Develop and deliver new product features for our Android application
* Improve engineering processes and tools to increase team effectiveness
* Work across both technical and business focused teams to deliver value to our creators