Do you want to re-invent how 10s of millions of people enjoy videos beyond shows and movies on their TVs and Tablets for free? Our mission is to provide customers effortless way to watch Free, Fun and Fresh content so it becomes part of their daily habit for relaxing, being entertained, and spending time with family and friends.

The Fire TV Channels team helps customers discover and engage with content they love. We operate at Amazon scale, designing and deploying software that is enjoyed by over 40MM active users globally. We solve significant customer problems in the consumer electronics space through devices, mobile applications, large language model, and machine learning.



Key job responsibilities
As the engineering team leader, you’ll work closely with engineering staff and a team of experts to design and execute your team’s feature roadmap. You will have direct input into requirement definition, and will work closely with our customers, developers and product managers to define, develop and deliver new products and features. The ideal candidate is equally obsessed with delivering the best possible customer experiences and leading and building strong teams. They define software architecture, communicating effectively with engineers, partners, leaders and a broad set of stakeholders. This leader can think long-term, advocate for strong engineering excellence, and bring in their own software development best practices as well as follow best practices from the broader development community in Amazon.

The ideal candidate has a passion for TV and video entertainment and/or advertising combined with an established track record delivering break-out consumer software experiences.

A day in the life
Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems are a must have. This person has thrived and succeeded in fast paced environment where learning new concepts quickly is a must. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly not only about building good software but about making that software achieve its goals in operational reality.

About the team
We operate as an autonomous and self organizing team. We advocate for our customers first in every aspect of our work, and make time to know and understand our customers. We make customer privacy and trust a primary concern in every decision. We build towards the right long term solution, and seek to eliminate tech debt. We seek to continuously improve, and will take action every sprint to improve. As a team, we embrace our diversity and foster an inclusive environment where we can all grow together.