Software Development Engineer II, Device Software
DESCRIPTION
The Amazon Devices team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Dash, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?
As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you will own critical UI frameworks and apps that make it possible to develop UI applications for Amazon devices. You will create common software components to help Amazon build our smart home devices by working on projects that push the boundaries of customer-device interaction including product lines such as Echo and Fire TV. You will be challenged to create rich customer applications, while also optimizing for performance.
You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative customer experiences. You will create new solutions in a responsive, flexible and collaborative peer environment. You will participate in designing, prototyping, and building solutions to hard problems in the Amazon ecosystem for our exciting future in consumer devices.
As a Software Development Engineer, you will:
- Influence strategy and roadmap through your technical and non-technical insights
- Work with a team of world-class engineers and product managers to understand and refine the scope of incoming projects, and to ensure deliverables meet an unreasonably high quality bar
- Build reliable, high-performance SDKs for a variety of Amazon Devices, such as Amazon Echo and FireTV
- Actively experiment and prototype with novel technologies that improve the customer experience or solve business needs
- Mentor junior team members in career growth and assist in task management and Agile planning
- Work with multiple top-notch internal and external engineering teams to understand and respond to their needs
- Organize and participate in collaborative Q&A sessions, workshops, presentations to share your technical know-how with the rest of the team
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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