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Job summary
Comixology, a revolutionary, cloud-based digital comics service, was acquired by Amazon in 2014. The Comixology team is responsible for comics €“ including comic books, graphic novels, manga and bandes dessin©es €“ worldwide at Amazon, including the Comixology-branded apps, Kindle comics, and the comics store on Amazon.com. The team€™s first-in-class innovations include the exclusive Comixology Guided View technology which provides an immersive and cinematic reading experience and Comixology Unlimited, a monthly subscription service. Comixology is based in New York City, with operations in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chennai.

We are looking for a Senior Android Engineer to join our mobile Android development team to launch an exciting new comic product. In this role you will have the opportunity to contribute significantly to the design and development of this new product on the Android platform. Your responsibilities will include defining the future architecture of our platform, providing technical and product expertise, and mentoring junior engineers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Programming experience with at least one software programming language.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

-Experience with Kotlin and/or Java
-Experience with Android UI Patterns (Fragments, custom view components)
-Experience writing multi-threaded and networked apps
-Experience with version control (Git, etc.)
-Knowledge of Android Studio and other mobile platforms (iOS, Windows, etc.) and Web Services as it relates to mobile apps
-Experience with automation and build scripting
-Familiar with high performance graphics code (OpenGL, NDK, etc.)

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