Sr. Builder Mobile (Sr. SDE), Ring
North Reading, MA - USA
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Job Summary
This team also owns experiences that sit at the heart of Rings security promise to customers the kind of work where reliability latency and clarity arent nice-to-haves theyre the product. We need senior engineers with deep iOS or Android expertise ideally both or equivalent depth in a cross-platform framework like React Native who can navigate that bar and raise it.
This is also a role for someone who sees AI as a fundamental shift in how software is built tested shipped and maintained. Youll champion AI-powered development practices on the team and influence how engineers across Ring apply them to feature work.
Key job responsibilities
You will:
- Lead the technical design and delivery of foundational user experiences that millions of customers use every day and that other Ring teams build their features on top of
- Own the architecture quality and long-term health of the surfaces this team is responsible for making decisions that balance velocity reliability and scale
- Champion AI-powered development practices on the team code generation automated testing intelligent code review AI-assisted debugging and help raise the bar for how the broader org applies them
- Set the bar for performance reliability and craft on experiences where customers expect responsiveness and trust at all times
- Partner closely with product UX backend and platform teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end experiences across Rings connected device ecosystem
- Mentor and grow the engineers around you through design reviews code reviews pairing and technical leadership
- Drive operational excellence: observability on-call response defect resolution and continuous improvement of CI/CD and testing for your surfaces
A day in the life
As a Senior Builder on this team you will:
- Shape the technical direction of experiences that anchor the Ring app and that other teams depend on your decisions ripple far beyond your own surface area
- Tackle hard problems at the intersection of UX performance and reliability for features that customers rely on for their sense of safety
- Operationalize AI-powered workflows in your own development and across the team identifying where AI can eliminate toil and accelerate delivery
- Engage in deep technical discussions about architecture state management navigation models and platform-specific tradeoffs with experienced mobile engineers
- Build features and infrastructure that protect millions of homes your work has real tangible impact on peoples sense of safety and connection
About the team
This team owns foundational user experiences that anchor the Ring app and that many other teams build features into. We hold ourselves to a high bar because the experiences we own are the ones customers see most often and rely on most heavily including the moments when Rings security promise is on the line.
Youll work closely with senior leadership every day. Ring is intentionally structured to break down the corporate org-chart barriers that slow teams down builders sit shoulder-to-shoulder with the leaders setting direction and decisions happen in the room rather than three layers up. That leadership is deeply hands-on actively reshaping how we think about AI in software development and shaped by a vision that has redefined what neighborhood safety looks like for communities around the world. As a Senior Builder you wont just receive that vision youll help carry it forward into how Ring builds mobile software.
We combine the ambition and speed of a startup with the scale resources and impact of Amazon.
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 7 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 5 years of deep native iOS (Swift/Objective-C) or Android (Kotlin/Java) development with working knowledge of the other platform or equivalent depth building production mobile apps with React Native or a comparable cross-platform framework with strong familiarity with at least one underlying native platform
- Demonstrated experience shipping and operating features at large scale (millions of daily active users)
- Experience designing and implementing modern mobile architectures (e.g. MVVM MVI Clean Architecture unidirectional data flow) using current platform tooling (SwiftUI/UIKit Jetpack Compose Coroutines Combine etc.)
- Strong command of the full mobile SDLC including CI/CD automated testing release management and production monitoring
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Demonstrated adoption of AI-powered development tools and practices (AI-assisted coding automated test generation intelligent code review AI-driven debugging)
- Experience building features or surfaces that other teams integrate into or extend
- Experience working on user experiences with strict reliability latency or correctness requirements
- Experience with modern navigation state management and complex UI composition at scale
- Experience integrating cross-platform frameworks (React Native Flutter Kotlin Multiplatform) into existing native applications
- Performance optimization experience for resource-constrained environments (battery memory network)
- Experience with REST APIs real-time/event-driven services or push-based architectures
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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 MA North Reading - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually
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