Software Development Engineer, Smart Home Cameras

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join their Smart Home Cameras team. This role offers the chance to lead technical projects, working with cutting-edge technologies in Computer Vision and media streaming. You'll collaborate with talented teams to enhance customer experiences on devices like Echo and FireTV. The ideal candidate will have a strong software development background, excellent problem-solving skills, and a passion for creating seamless smart home solutions. Join a forward-thinking organization that values inclusivity and empowers its engineers to drive impactful results.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience.
• Experience in design and architecture of systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical aspects of core Cameras customer experience.
• Engage with cross-disciplinary teams to design and implement features.

Skills

Software Development

Design Patterns

System Architecture

Programming Languages

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Source Control Management

Build Processes

Testing Frameworks

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Smart Home Cameras

The Alexa Smart Home Cameras team is seeking an experienced software development engineer. The ideal candidate is an innovative self-starter who is looking for an opportunity to be both an individual contributor and technical lead.
Alexa Smart Home Cameras team enables Alexa with a sense of sight around customers homes with innovative experiences like “Alexa, show the front door” or other ambient features like automatic announcements with a live view of cameras where interesting events (person/package/doorbell) were detected. We provide a suite of APIs for 1P (Ring, Blink) and 3P partners to integrate with and enable these capabilities for their cameras. We achieve this by developing technology across Computer Vision, media streaming, real-time communication, and the Alexa app. Our customers are end-consumers who want to use Alexa-enabled devices to simplify their experiences with their smart home cameras and doorbells, as well as the developers that make the devices, like Ring, Arlo, Nest, and Wyze.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer on the Cameras team, you will lead the technical aspects of core Cameras customer experience on Echo, FireTV devices and engage with experienced cross-disciplinary teams to design implement and bring to market innovative products and features. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.

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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