As a Software Development Engineer in the Amazon Device OS organization, you will own the definition and implementation of components used to build applications on millions of devices. We are building a new development environment for our smart home devices, and, as part of this effort, you will create common software components for product lines such as Echo and Fire TV. You will be challenged to create rich customer applications, while optimizing for performance.
You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative customer experiences. You will create new solutions in a responsive, flexible and collaborative peer environment. You will participate in designing, prototyping, and building solutions to hard problems in the Amazon ecosystem for our exciting future in consumer devices.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer, you will:
- Understand and refine the scope of incoming projects
- Design and implement reliable, high-performance SDKs for a variety of Amazon devices (e.g., Amazon Echo, FireTV) at a high-quality bar
- Experiment and prototype with novel technologies that improve the customer experience and solve business needs
- Work with internal and external engineering teams to understand and respond to their needs
- Organize and participate in collaborative Q&A sessions, workshops, presentations to share your technical know-how
- Mentor junior team members in career growth
- 5+ 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
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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