Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon WebView

The Amazon WebView team is seeking talented software development engineers to design implement and maintain the next generation web solution for our device software. Be part of a team that builds on and extends open source systems to deliver results and enable millions of hours of web-based experiences on consumer devices world-wide.

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive San Francisco Bay Area research and development team that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronic devices and services. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Inc. originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have produced groundbreaking devices like Kindle Fire tablets Kindle e-readers Amazon Fire TV Amazon Echo and more.

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a talented detail-oriented and enthusiastic Software Development Engineer who is passionate about quality and delivering for customers. As a Software Development Engineer you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. Duties include research design implementation documentation and maintenance of new and existing software in order to deliver the core WebView engine. Our team is still on Day 1 and you will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design architecture and implementation of cutting edge products used every day by people you know.

A day in the life
You will work up and down the device software stack writing APIs in React Native and building debugging and maintaining a web engine written in C. WebView engineers must be comfortable working both with low level platform integrations and debugging world-class web apps written in HTML and javascript. Areas of particular focus on our team include integration with the graphics layer media playback web APIs and integration with the OSs UI layer.

About the team
The team is currently based in beautiful Sunnyvale CA and Seattle WA. We focus on designing building improving and optimizing a web engine thats key to the customer and developer flywheel on devices. We enable developers to build and seamlessly launch their apps/in-app content which in turn helps customers discover buy and engage with these apps on Echo and Fire TV.



- 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
- Experience working with one of the following technologies: embedded development in C/C Chromium WebKit development and/or middleware development or web engineering

- 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
- Experience working with one of the following technologies: embedded development in C/C Chromium WebKit development and/or middleware development or web engineering
- Experience working with Android Internals
- Experience with web development

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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 job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.