Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Our members love entertainment. Amazon's Prime Video service launched in 2014 and has quickly become a strategic priority for the organization, reflected in the service's recent expansion into over 200 countries and territories around the world. Amazon invests on acquiring, producing and programming TV shows & movies – from brand new, including must-see exclusive series like The Grand Tour, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, to The Man in the High Castle, Transparent, Mr Robot and more.

We are seeking software developers to join our Prime Video Builder Tools team. You will be part of Amazon Video's engineering technology for video applications on a wide variety of Living Room platforms including Smart TVs, Blu-ray players, Games Consoles. The successful candidate will take pride in the work they deliver and have a passion for building tooling that can improve customers support experience through large data and tooling that enables our developers.

Expectations
As part of the team developing scalable solutions that enable engineers to solve difficult issues of the Amazon video application by providing them with the right data and tooling, you will be working on a wide range of activities from developing automation tooling, managing data platforms, creating plugins or developing features within the Prime Video application.

You will have the opportunity to work with a variety of leading technologies, leveraging AWS. You will help shape the future of Amazon's video platform by investigating new approaches to provide the best video user experience for customers. This will be balanced with sound engineering practices leveraging tools, data and machine learning. Your goal is to build the best video playback application for the world's most customer-centric company.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
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· Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design.
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· Highly proficient in at least one of Java, C++, C#, Objective-C.
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· Experience with one or more of JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, Python.
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· Evidence of working with algorithms, data-structures, efficiency, concurrency, performance optimization.
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· Evidence of working with object-oriented development and design patterns.
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· OS fundamentals and systems architecture.
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· Cloud computing, large-scale and high-availability distributed architecture.
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· Experience working in an Agile environment.
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· Strong analytical and excellent problem solving skills.
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· Strong written and verbal English communications skills.