Android - SDE II, FireTV
DESCRIPTION
FireTV is transforming the global TV landscape, emerging as the preferred operating system for leading TV manufacturers worldwide. Powered by our team of innovative problem-solvers, we're bringing the next generation of smart entertainment to homes across the planet.
Each FireTV launch delivers new features that improve customer experience and increase our market share. From seamless streaming to intelligent interfaces, we're elevating entertainment for millions of viewers worldwide, one screen at a time.
Join us as we reshape the future of television, making premium entertainment experiences accessible to audiences everywhere.
Our team's mission is to build delightful FireTV products for our customers and partners with lower cost and faster time to market.
As a Software engineer it’s up to you to define, design and refine the tech that keeps us in lock step with our partners. Anticipate. Innovate. Bring challenging ideas and we’ll support you with the latest tech, tools and systems that you need to succeed. You’ll drive the team forward, guiding them over every obstacle and leading the way to develop exciting, original and effective solutions. Leading the way, you’ll bring our team together to build and maintain technologies used to ignite millions of screens worldwide
Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate has current and extensive experience developing and building Android systems and applications. The candidate understands what the limitations of the platform are and can design and implement additional services or help optimize existing ones to meet the product requirements. The ideal candidate:
- Has in-depth expertise working with Android system
- Independently lead complex technical initiatives within your team
- Good understanding of Multimedia domain and associated technologies
- Hands on experience in linux kernel, drivers and BSPs
- Profiency in C++, Java, Kotlin, Rust.
- Mentor and lead developers by cultivating curiosity and deep technical understanding
- Explore technical needs and bring solutions to the table
- Work with other lead engineers to develop a unified technical strategy for Android
A day in the life
In a typical day, you work closely with FireTV developers, SoC vendors, ODMs, Hardware team, and technical program managers to create new features, optimizing related issues, and deliver customer loving high quality smart TV products on time. We also work on the cutting edge of TV technology space.
About the team
Amazon FireTV products are revolutionary consumer devices that have become the #1 best-selling Amazon products. They are among the most innovative and fastest growing businesses at both Amazon and the entire consumer electronics industry. We are looking for talented software engineers to join our team in building application software. This is an enormous opportunity to lead the design, architecture, and implementation of products used every day by people you know.
Smart TV Solution Engineering team is responsible for the delivery of integrated smartTV experiences at planet scale for our partner branded SmartTV business
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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