Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Inc. originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then Lab126 has produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets Fire TV Amazon Echo and Dash Button. The Fire OS team is a big part of creating these innovative devices at Lab126. The Fire OS team is responsible for the board bring up low level software operating system core framework feature development and end-to-end system functions such as power/performance that bring the devices to life. For many devices the Fire OS team takes the open source Android distribution and productizes the software on Amazon hardware.
What will you help us create
The Role:
In the Device OS group we are inventing the future for consumer electronics and are looking for a software engineer to help us bring the vision into reality and solve real world challenges that will transform our customers experiences in ways we cant even imagine yet. If you love to be hands on designing and implementing quality platform for our consumer electronic devices while working with a world class highly accomplished team we would love to talk with you.
As a Software Engineer you will lead the technical aspects of core Device customer experience and engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to design implement and bring to market innovative consumer products. You must be responsive flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.
As a Software Engineer on Device OS team you are expected to take part in the implementation of features across the framework and middleware components provide technical consultation across different organization find innovative ways to solve customer needs and take up interesting technical problems that are unique to devices. You will work closely with Platform and application teams to ensure the highest level of quality for the Device OS deliverable.
- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 2 years of Android development experience
- Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
- 3 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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