Senior Software Development Engineer, Devices Content and Advertising

Do you want to re-invent how 10s of millions of people enjoy shows and movies on their TVs and Tablets

DCA (Devices Content and Advertising) includes Amazon Fire TV the #1 streaming media player with over 50MM monthly active users Fire Tablet and Amazon Echo & Echo Show. Our DCAs mission is to make watching content they love effortless and fun for customers to enjoy all of their entertainment so it becomes part of their daily habit for relaxing being entertained and spending time with family and friends.

The DCA team combines advertising and mobile technologies smart TVs and Alexa to help our customers discover and engage with content and help Amazon lower prices. We operate at Amazon scale designing and deploying software that is enjoyed by over 60MM active users globally. We solve significant customer problems in the consumer electronics space through devices mobile applications computer vision and machine learning.

As the youll work closely with local engineering staff and a team of experts to design and execute your teams feature roadmap. You will have direct input into requirement definition and will work closely with our customers developers and product managers to define develop and deliver new products and features. The ideal candidate is equally obsessed with delivering the best possible customer experiences and leading and building strong teams. They define software architecture communicating effectively with engineers partners leaders and a broad set of stakeholders. This leader can think long-term advocate for strong engineering excellence and bring in their own software development best practices as well as follow best practices from the broader development community in Amazon.

The ideal candidate has a passion for Amazon Devices like TV Echo and video entertainment and/or advertising combined with an established track record delivering break-out consumer software experiences.



Key job responsibilities
Work with product management and cross functional teams to build and ship technical solutions for desired user experiences
Provide hands on technical leadership to the team design reviews and influence prioritization
Advise senior and executive management
Take a long-term view of system architecture proactively identifying deficiencies and proposing larger initiatives to improve scalability and reliability
Make sound technical trade-offs that balance speed of delivery with operational excellence security and long-term maintainability
Lead with GenAI to augment productivity shape how engineers use GenAI to showcase customer obsession
Mentor and develop peers and junior engineers; raise the technical bar and improve engineering practices and process improvements across the organization

About the team
The DCA (Devices Content and Advertising) team combines advertising and mobile technologies smart TVs and Alexa to help our customers discover and engage with content and help Amazon to lower the prices. We operate at Amazon scale designing and deploying software that is enjoyed by over 65MM active users globally. We solve significant customer problems in the consumer electronics space through devices mobile applications and machine learning.

- 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

- 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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