Software Development Engineer Ii, Fire Tv Live

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Software Development

Software Development Engineer II on the Fire TV Live team, responsible for building and owning critical components for live television viewing experiences across Fire TV devices. The role involves designing and implementing products to surface and promote content from video service partners, investigating and prototyping new applications, and delivering high-quality software in an Agile environment. The team leverages technologies including big data, machine learning, and optimization techniques to create an engaging entertainment platform, with a focus on improving voice interfaces for media and entertainment content.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and implement products that enable video service partners (Prime Video Channels, IMDb TV, Twitch, etc) to surface & promote content as part of the 'Live TV' integrated experience.
  2. Investigate, prototype, and deliver new and innovative software applications.
  3. Deliver high quality software through working in a dynamic, team-focused Agile/Scrum environment.

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice to have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • critical components
  • rapid innovation
  • voice interfaces
  • mission critical
  • high volume applications