Sr. Software Development Engineer
Amazon.com
Do you want to lead a team building frameworks for the next generation of UI apps running on Amazon Devices? Do you believe in the “Write Once Run Anywhere” coding paradigm? How about your team providing a positive impact to our smart home customers by ensuring unique Amazon technologies are easily available to app developers? Do you want to work in a horizontal team making an impact on a wide range of products? If so, join us as Software Development Manager to build UI and app building frameworks in Device OS.
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.
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 .
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:
- Influence strategy and roadmap through your technical and non-technical insights
- 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
- Build reliable, high- SDKs for a variety of Amazon Devices, such as Amazon Echo and FireTV
- Actively experiment and prototype with novel technologies that improve the customer experience or solve business needs
- Mentor junior team members in career growth and assist in task management and Agile planning
- Work with multiple top-notch internal and external engineering teams to understand and respond to their needs
- 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 help 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.
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.
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 .
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:
- Influence strategy and roadmap through your technical and non-technical insights
- 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
- Build reliable, high- SDKs for a variety of Amazon Devices, such as Amazon Echo and FireTV
- Actively experiment and prototype with novel technologies that improve the customer experience or solve business needs
- Mentor junior team members in career growth and assist in task management and Agile planning
- Work with multiple top-notch internal and external engineering teams to understand and respond to their needs
- 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 help 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.
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