Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon Photos - Storytelling

About the position

Amazon Photos helps consumers preserve and re-live their memories. The service comes with unlimited photo storage for Prime members and apps are available on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop, Fire Tablet & Fire TV. The service is also integrated into Alexa devices such as Echo Show and Echo Spot. Amazon Photos is looking for a Front End Focused Software Dev Engineer to join the Storytelling team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute significantly to the future of Amazon Photos in terms of affecting our large customer base and providing more complex and fulfilling storytelling experiences. Our backlog of features are fun and challenging; when these features are productionized they bring true joy to our customers. We are a team that cares about your work-life balance, while challenging you to solve problems at Amazon scale. You will be part of a strong team in a fast-paced, start-up environment where agile development is embraced and innovation is encouraged. You will get support and resources from some of the smartest people in the industry to continue your personal and professional growth.

Responsibilities

• You will work on a team building new experiences & features to bring joy to our customer base.
• You will be developing new features on frontend stacks in React Native, Swift and Kotlin.
• When given a business problem, you create a technical strategy and deliver with limited guidance.
• You have a high attention to detail, working closely with business and technical stakeholders to drive measurable results.
• You successfully launch software for the business and resolve architectural deficiencies.
• You contribute to improve engineering, test, and operational excellence best practices on your team.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• 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.

Benefits

• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.