Senior Software Development Engineer

Amazon; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative research and development company is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join their dynamic team. In this role, you will lead the charge in creating cutting-edge software components for smart home devices, pushing the boundaries of customer-device interaction. You will collaborate with a talented team, mentor junior engineers, and influence product strategy while ensuring high-quality deliverables. This position offers a unique opportunity to work on groundbreaking technology that enhances user experiences across a variety of Amazon devices. If you're passionate about software development and eager to make a significant impact, this is the role for you.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience required.
• Experience leading design and architecture of systems is essential.

Responsibilities

• Own critical frameworks and apps for Amazon devices.
• Create rich customer applications while optimizing for performance.

Skills

Software Development

Programming Languages

Design Patterns

Mentoring

Agile Methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

SDK Development

Source Control Management

Performance Tooling

Job description

Job ID: 2928450 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.

Are you someone looking to showcase your skills? How often have you had an opportunity to be a founding member of a cross-functional team tasked with innovating the building blocks of device software? If this sounds intriguing, then we’d like to talk to you about a new role at Amazon.

Join Amazon Common Software (ACS) in Devices, which launched Feb ‘2020. We are growing and need strong, creative leaders, with diverse experiences, to help us build the team for a new initiative. Check ACS out here: https://developer.amazon.com/acs-devices

ACS is software that makes it faster to develop devices that are transforming the smart home and run Amazon services, like Alexa. Come join the ACS family!

As a Software Development Engineer on the ACS team, you will be part of a team that owns critical Android framework components, services, tools, and application development frameworks - working on projects that push the boundaries of customer-device interaction.

You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer product experiences. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. You will participate in designing, prototyping, and building solutions to hard problems in the Android and Amazon ecosystem.

As part of your work, you will work closely with Amazon device software teams, product management teams, external partner developers, internal Amazon application developers, and Amazon service teams to drive development from the concept stage to the launch stage.

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you will own critical frameworks and apps that make it possible to develop applications for Amazon devices. You will create common software components to help Amazon build our smart home devices by working on projects that push the boundaries of customer-device interaction including product lines such as Echo and TV. You will be challenged to create rich customer applications, while also optimizing for performance.

You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative customer experiences. You will create new solutions in a responsive, flexible and collaborative peer environment. You will participate in designing, prototyping, and building solutions to hard problems in the Amazon ecosystem for our exciting future in consumer devices.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will:

1. Influence strategy and roadmap through your technical and non-technical insights
2. Work with a team of world-class engineers and product managers to understand and refine the scope of incoming projects, and to ensure deliverables meet an unreasonably high quality bar
3. Build reliable, high-quality SDKs for a variety of Amazon Devices, such as Amazon Echo and FireTV
4. Actively experiment and prototype with novel technologies that improve the customer experience or solve business needs
5. Mentor junior team members in career growth and assist in task management and Agile planning
6. Work with multiple top-notch internal and external engineering teams to understand and respond to their needs
7. Organize and participate in collaborative Q&A sessions, workshops, presentations to share your technical know-how with the rest of the team

A day in the life

You will be a part of an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development where you'll lead a team on technical designs and architecture. To build our app-based experiences you will interact with product teams to gather requirements, support feasibility analysis and to provide technical solutions that are required in defining our next generation products. One of the important aspects of the role is to develop the best, and you’ll have opportunities to build a team and mentor others by sharing your knowledge across multiple teams as we build a truly unique UI app development experience.

About the team

Our team exists to enable application teams to swiftly create delightful, performant, and interactive applications that span across Amazon and our external partner devices. We are responsible for delivering performance tooling that helps our customers to measure the performance and profile the apps to find the root cause of performance issues and we do so by showing the utmost customer obsession. As a part of the Device OS organization, you’ll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end covering product conception to shipping on the vast number of Amazon devices in the field.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 7+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.