Sr Software Development Engineer FireTV Experiences

The Amazon Devices team designs and engineers highprofile consumer electronics including the bestselling Kindle family of products. We have also produced innovative devices like Fire tablets Fire TV Amazon Dash and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create
Along with leading in web services and ecommerce Amazon is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers highprofile consumer electronics including our bestselling ereaders and tablets and Fire TV.
Fire TV client software and services technologies are enjoyed by millions of customers the world over. You will drive key engineering and business decisions that impact Amazons longterm vision including innovation in the delivery and consumption of media and entertainment. We leverage latest technology in clientapp frameworks big data machine learning optimization techniques and high availability services. Here on the Fire TV team we are dedicated to creating the most engaging entertainment platform for the whole family worldwide. In this role you will:
Lead the design of new features and initiatives across the organization.
Investigate prototype and deliver new and innovative software applications.
Deliver high quality software through working in a dynamic teamfocused Agile/Scrum environment.
We are looking for passionate hardworking and talented software engineers who have experience building innovative mission critical high volume applications that customers love. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design architecture and implementation of products used every day by people you know. This is a high visibility team where you will get a chance to make a positive impact on customer experience.



Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities

Lead E2E architecture design implementation support and evaluation of technologyfocused tools and services.

Provide leadership and innovation in the design and implementation of services to enable new products and services.

Evaluate complex business and technical requirements and communicate inherent risks and solutions to technical and nontechnical business owners.

Act as point of contact for communications dealing with project deliverables setting the expectation managing priorities technologies human factors and management issues.

Establish consistence project management processes standards and guidelines in the of program wide security efforts. Engage enterprise wide teams as needed with focus on results.

Finally our products being a part of one of the Worlds largest production ecosystem requires all candidates to balance sustaining and stability issues for a 24x7 environment with new development.

A day in the life
A day in the life
If you join our team you will get to build new products and features from the ground up. You will lead teams that define build features and product experiences used by thousands of customers watching FireTV. We work across multiple internal teams as well as product to define what we are building and make it a reality. As the FireTV org we get to work horizontally across many exciting new device types.

About the team
About the team
This teams primary focus is to develop the product and experiences to swiftly create delightful performant and interactive devices for our FireTV ecosystem. We are responsible for working closely with product managers and end customers to build the right features devices and cloud experiences that enlight customers. As a part of the FireTV organization youll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end from product conception to ultimately shipping on the vast number of Amazon FireTV devices in the field.

5 years of noninternship 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
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.