Fire TV is the #1 bestselling streaming media player in the U.S. We are looking for a strong software development engineer to contribute to the architecture and operating system level performance. In this role you will have the opportunity to drive optimizations to the user experience of all Fire TV devices.
The ideal candidate has great debugging and problemsolving skills and deep knowledge of Android internals. You will also have an interest in developing automated solutions for consumerfacing products strong technical ability excellent organizational skills great communication skills a motivation to achieve results in a fastpaced environment.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer in the Device OS you will take part in the implementation and delivery of Android frameworks and performance features for devices. You will work closely with the application teams as well as partners to take the product from concept to customer release while ensuring the highest level of quality for your deliverables. You must have indepth expertise working with Android frameworks stack or any highlevel Operating system such as Linux or IOS. You must enjoy working on a variety of system domains that are typically found in a consumer electronics mobile tablet or a TV device. In this role you will:
* Create innovative new products that are used by millions of users
* Perform new Software architecture review for future products and SoCs platform.
* Debug and RootCause System Stability & Performance issues on FTV devices.
* Instrument monitor and enhance Fire OS for every Fire TV device
* Develop applications extend features and create new benchmarks for performance evaluation
* Suggest and implement optimizations to Fire OS
* Influence architecture decisions for best performance
* Specify system requirements for upcoming Fire TV devices
* Collaborate with teams incorporating features into Fire TV for optimal experience
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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