About the position
Do you want to re-invent how 10s of millions of people enjoy shows and movies on their TVs and Tablets? FBDA (Fire TV Business devices and advertising) includes Amazon Fire TV, the #1 streaming media player with millions of monthly active users, and Amazon Fire Tablet. Our mission is to make watching content they love effortless and fun for customers to enjoy all of their entertainment so it becomes part of their daily habit for relaxing, being entertained, and spending time with family and friends. We are looking for an innovative Software Development Engineer II who wants to have outsize impact. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will define and build innovative consumer product experiences with a direct impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of flagship products that customers love and use every day. You'll be part of a triple digit growth opportunity working with talented engineers to build delightful user experiences and full-stack technology and services (including customer experience) that must scale to support millions of users. The ideal candidate will have industry-leading programming skills, a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, and be conversant up the software stack.
Responsibilities
- Build full-stack technology and services that must scale to support millions of users.
- Invent a delightful experience for our customers that utilizes Android, cloud services, frontend and backend technologies.
- Define and implement novel customer experiences and product direction through collaboration with Product, UX and other engineering teams.
- Deliver high quality software through working in a dynamic, team-focused Agile/Scrum environment.
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
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
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
- Experience with Java, Kotlin or React Native
- Experience with working on customer devices on Android platform
- Strong coding, algorithm, and debugging fundamentals
- Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining a high volume embedded system
- Experience developing on cloud based infrastructure
- Willingness to roll up one's sleeves to get the job done
- Positive attitude and professional demeanor
- Experience influencing software engineering best practices within your team
- Passion for digital entertainment, including TV and Movies.
Benefits
- Equity
- Sign-on payments
- Medical benefits
- Financial benefits
- Other forms of compensation
