Software Development Engineer, Web & Emerging Modalities, Prime Video
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Job Summary
Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. On Prime Video customers can customize their viewing experience and find their favourite movies series documentaries and live sports including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies Fallout Heads of State Reacher Red One Road House The Accountant 2 The Boys The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and The Summer I Turned Pretty; UK produced Originals such as The Girlfriend Steal Clarksons Farm Molly-Mae: Behind it All My Fault: London and Last One Laughing UK; licensed fan favorites such as Nine Perfect Strangers S2 and The Assassin; Prime member exclusive access to coverage of live sports including UEFA Champions League and NBA and acclaimed sports documentaries including Built in Birmingham: Brady & the Blues Sven and the Amazon Original All or Nothing franchise including All or Nothing: Arsenal. If this sounds exciting to you please read on.
You will directly deliver innovative exciting experiences on the web and other surfaces with emerging AI technologies to meet customers where they are.
Key job responsibilities
You will work as part of one of our 2-pizza teams launching and growing new initiatives for Amazons global business. You will be a significant independent contributor owning highly impactful business outcomes. You will collaborate closely with Product Managers Program Managers UX Designers Engineering partners and Leadership across the company to deliver those outcomes. You will regularly challenge the status quo and implement high standards of operations on your team. You will mentor and grow the next generation of engineers as well as pursue opportunities to grow your own skills and career.
A day in the life
You will be a confident full-stack engineer. You will own the end-to-end delivery of customer and platform features - working with full stack web technologies (TypeScript JavaScript HTML Sass) back-end APIs and webservers (Java Scala) testing (Storybook Playwright) and infrastructure (AWS CDK). You will review code design documents and plan your work using standardised tools and processes with your team. You will work with product program and UX owners to define refine and iterate on prototypes.
About the team
Our team owns the customer experience of some of the major entry points on Prime Video for video discovery we drive complex business problems build global technology solutions to provide customized compelling content to customers in each country where we operate. The team enables Prime Video customers to instantly discover search navigate browse content and manage preferences primarily across website platforms using any modern web browser on any device anywhere in the world.
The website team is a highly diverse and inclusive group with passion for building real world solutions experimentation and innovation at the core of our initiatives. We aim for keeping a self-sustainable process of improvement in our tech stack moving fast for creating new functionalities and delivering for strategic projects across Prime Video. We foster a culture of innovation and continuous growth building a strong team and setting time for enjoying our work and having fun outside it.
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in professional non-internship software development
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
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