Job Description

DESCRIPTIONDo you want to own cutting-edge 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 new video streaming capabilities for Amazon. 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.You should be comfortable diving deep into technical architectures and requirements, be able to quickly identify solutions to challenges discovered during development, and ready to work with latest mobile technology. Prior experience in building solutions for video streaming, mobile app or advertising is required. Successful candidates will thrive in environments that leverage agile planning techniques, encourage and reward creative design, intelligent risk taking, and find innovative ways to leverage cutting edge technology.This is a unique opportunity to work with some of the best Engineers at Amazon and be part of a rapidly growing initiative which is going to become a huge area of growth for Amazon\'s Advertising business and pioneer the usage of new technology at Amazon scale.Key job responsibilities
- Actively experiment and prototype with novel technologies that improve the customer experience or solve business needs
- Work with multiple internal and external engineering teams to learn and apply best practices
- Organize and participate in collaborative Q&A sessions, workshops, presentations to share your technical know-how with the rest of the team
- Understanding of device-side software design principles for security, performance, and reliability
- Drive building customer experiences on mobile, TV (Living room devices) using cross platform UI libraries and graphics API
- Solve distributed systems and recommendation serving problems that manifest only at extremely high scale.
- Experience on Android and Player Technology selection, productization & scaling across platforms/devicesBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming languagePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor\'s degree in computer science or equivalent

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