Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon MXPlayer

Amazon; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 18,00,000 - 25,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in digital video entertainment seeks a Software Development Engineer II for its Amazon MX Player. This role involves coding, designing, and impacting customer experience through innovative solutions in a fast-paced environment. Candidates should possess a strong background in software development with at least 3 years of professional experience, preferably in the video games industry.

Qualifications

• 3+ years professional software development experience.
• Experience in the Video Games Industry.
• Programming experience in a software language.

Responsibilities

• Develop coding solutions from broadly defined problems.
• Understand fundamental algorithms.
• Build large scale distributed systems.

Skills

Software Development

Algorithm Fundamentals

Large Scale Systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon MXPlayer

Do you want to own technology, solve new problems that didn’t exist before, and have the ability to see the impact of your successes?

Amazon is shaping the future of digital video entertainment. We seek engineers who can help us shape and develop a new video product for Amazon in India i.e. for Amazon MX Player, our free ad-supported video streaming service on the Amazon.in shopping app, mobile web and Fire TV. This is an exciting opportunity for a rock-star engineer who wants to work in a start-up like environment and is passionate about digital media and new customer experiences.

Amazon MX Player has scaled up significantly as a service over the past few years and we are launching new content regularly. Our journey began as Amazon miniTV in 2021, and in 2024, we acquired MX Player. Some of our shows like Aashram, Physicswallah, Sixer, Case Toh Banta Hai have won several awards. You can read about the service here:
• https://blog.aboutamazon.in/entertainment/amazon-india-launches-minitv-a-free-video-streaming-service
• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spotlight/amazon-india-launches-minitv-a-free-video-streaming-service-within-the-amazon-app/articleshow/82676790.cms
• https://www.aboutamazon.in/news/entertainment/amazon-minitv-mx-player-merger

What you build will have a direct impact on the Amazon MX Player customers. Our team owns the Android TV app, uses gen AI to create new tools that help the business, and owns multiple backend services responsible for Customer Identification and Recognition.

Key job responsibilities
- Ability to code right solutions starting with broadly defined problems,
- Understand basic Algorithm fundamentals
- Development of code in at least one programming language and build large scale robust distributed systems

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
- 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) 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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