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 crossdisciplinary 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 highperformance SDKs for a variety of Amazon devices (e.g. Amazon Echo FireTV) at a highquality 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 knowhow
Mentor junior team members in career growth
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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