Software Dev Engineer III, Auto Software (Smart Vehicles)
DESCRIPTION
This Software Dev Engineer III role is focused on improving Appstore Developer's experience. You need to work on a wide range of technologies and systems which are on cloud and on the device. You would be looking at scaling these systems to support the fast growth, innovating, simplifying and removing bottlenecks, improving reliability and robustness, re-architecting and building new systems to reduce operational burden and increase feature velocity. Our ideal candidate will have a deep well-rounded technical background in current software disciplines, mastery of software fundamentals, and be willing to effectively challenge technical system designs and drive engineering decisions to drive the right developer and customer experience, and an eagerness to learn new and evolving technologies.
Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for the (re-)architecture, design, and delivery of client software, distributed services, influencing senior leadership on the right technical direction, making key technology decision, coaching and developing engineers, and improving the overall maintainability of these systems. You will need to drive innovations and think big to bring in step function changes from the current status quo.
A day in the life
* You will need to engage with stakeholders and engineers from your team and partner to review key designs, architecture and code
* You will define and track key customer and operational metrics, look at system health.
* You will problem solve complex ambiguous problems.
* You will code critical and complex modules.
* You will create buy-in for the technical vision and strategy both internally and with key external partners
About the team
The Appstore Developer Experience team connects app creators to the millions of customers who consume the content they love on varied set of devices like Fire TV, Fire Tablets, Android devices, etc. We continuously strive to make it easy for developers to provide world class experience and value for money customers.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ 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