Software Development Engineer, Amazon Native Player (ANP) and Inspire Experience
DESCRIPTION
Are you a passionate mobile full stack developer with Android/iOS and React Native expertise? Looking for a fun and fast paced team where your work is featured in the Amazon mobile app? Then this is your opportunity to build the next generation of Amazon mobile first Shopping Experiences. Your work will be seen by billions of shoppers and will be featured throughout the Amazon mobile app. Amazon Native Player (ANP) is the foundational component that experiences like Inspire (Amazon's mobile only discovery, browse, and social shopping experience) are built on. You will play a critical role in the evolving ANP's architecture, implementing new React Native features for Amazon customers, and working with both experience and foundational component teams.
Key job responsibilities
As a SDE-II in the ANP team, you will build new features that modernize and make the media experience more engaging, you will expand the types of content rendered (e.g. Live streams, AR/VR, etc.), you will optimize for rendering quality and performance, you will establish design patterns that empowers engineers across teams to safely innovate. You get to think strategically and envision the future of media within inspirational and social shopping.
About the team
We are a small, agile, and tight-knit team where product and tech work in close harmony on our mission of providing Amazon Shoppers a modern and cohesive multimedia experience within the Amazon mobile shopping application. Our customers internally are builders and externally are shoppers. Specifically, we are the media player and framework that powers experiences within the Amazon Shopping application like Inspire, full-screen Product Videos on Detail page, full-screen Review Images and Videos, and more. ANP is one of the Top-10 Core Shopping Frameworks within Amazon for experiences across the shopping journey.
Our Team Culture and Values
We are a small team where we share experiences, operate with empathy, and enjoy empowering each other’s success. We care about engineering and operational efficiency from the ground up, build supportive partnerships across teams, value work-life balance, and are constantly learning from each other. We love hard problems and like to move fast in a growing and constantly evolving environment. Our team comprises of team members across Seattle and Bay Area.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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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 Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.