Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

The Living Room Application Vending team is responsible for managing the last mile between application development teams and the customers’ devices. We are building solutions that simplify the distribution of applications within a device ecosystem lacking standards and highly heterogeneous in their operating platforms. We are looking for passionate software engineers, looking for challenges in an environment impacting 10’s of millions customers across the world (and counting).

As a Software Development Engineer working in the Application Vending team, you will lead the design and development of significant technical projects by both achieving results through other SDE's as well as writing critical-path code yourself. In collaboration with the Software Development Manager and Senior Engineers on the team, you will lead the technical design of a feature area, take the lead in solving ambiguous technical problems, contributing to architecture and areas where your team’s software bottlenecks the innovation of other teams. To achieve results you will demonstrate technical influence in your feature team and be an advocate for software engineering best practices. You'll also conduct and participate in design reviews for your feature team, provide insightful code reviews and actively mentor junior engineers. Whether your background is working within a small start-up or a big multi-national you should have a proven track record of delivering customer impacting solutions. You should be comfortable in a culture of experimentation and innovation, learning new skills as needed.

If you are passionate about Continuous Delivery, AWS technologies and delivering software impacting tons of customers, the team is looking for you!

About Amazon Video
At Amazon Video, we're fundamentally changing the way millions of customers access, consume and interact with video content worldwide. Inventing on behalf of our customers is in our DNA: Prime Video, X-Ray and Amazon Studio Originals (The Grand Tour, The Man in the High Castle, Transparent, Shaun the Sheep..) are just a few of the features and capabilities that delight our customers. It's a green-field space overdue for disruption and we'd like you to join us in our mission to enable everyone to search, discover, consume and interact with video content anytime, anywhere and on any device.

The Amazon Video Living Room team is responsible for ensuring that the rich and fluid Amazon Video application behaviour is maintained across a wide set of customer devices including Smart TV’s & Games Consoles. This involves working on 3D graphics pipelines, image algorithms, scene graphs, rendering methods, web technologies and integrating with media playback application and player teams in Amazon.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience with MVC/MVVM architectures
· Unit testing best practices
· Git version control
· An eye for clean, maintainable code
· Design/layout/UI skills
· Experience in the delivery of key services, features and websites involving multiple stakeholders and dependencies
· Experience working on devices
· Experience with video technology delivery
· Experience with Javascript
· Other languages (PHP, Java, Ruby, Python)
· Experience with functional testing
· Experience with Typescript or React a plus
· We are looking for software development engineers with experience building large scale software and application architecture, therefore knowledge of multiple languages is expected.

As a lot of the technologies we use are new. We really look for an active interest in greenfield software development and having a Github repo, contributing to developer forums etc is always a plus.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on objective criteria including your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all sections of society irrespective of colour, race, religion or belief, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, sex, marital status, disability, age or trade union membership. Please let us know if you have any special requirements in relation to this recruitment process.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
· Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design.
· Highly proficient in at least one of Java, C++, C#, Objective-C.
· Experience with one or more of JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, Python.
· Evidence of working with algorithms, data-structures, efficiency, concurrency, performance optimization.
· Evidence of working with object-oriented development and design patterns.
· OS fundamentals and systems architecture.
· Cloud computing, large-scale and high-availability distributed architecture.
· Experience working in an Agile environment.
· Strong analytical and excellent problem solving skills.
· Strong written and verbal English communications skills.