SW Development Engineer - II, Smart Home Cameras

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

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented Software Development Engineer to join their Smart Home Cameras team. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology that enhances the Alexa experience with innovative features. You will lead technical initiatives, collaborating with talented teams to design and implement solutions that simplify smart home interactions. If you're an innovative thinker with a passion for software development and a desire to make a significant impact, this position is perfect for you. Join a culture that values inclusivity and empowers you to deliver exceptional results for customers.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience in design or architecture of new and existing systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical aspects of core Cameras customer experience.
• Engage with cross-disciplinary teams to design innovative products.

Skills

Software Development

Design Patterns

Reliability and Scaling

Programming Languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Source Control Management

Build Processes

Testing

Job description

SW Development Engineer - II, 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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