Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Sports News and Linear

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · IN, KA, Bengaluru · Software Development

Software Development Engineer role focused on building and maintaining a tax calculation engine for Amazon's Prime Video Sports News and Linear service. The role involves designing, developing, testing, and operating highly scalable and reliable distributed systems that handle complex tax laws and calculations accurately and quickly. While the description mentions machine learning and computer vision in the context of live events automation, the core responsibilities are centered around traditional software engineering for a critical business function.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define, design, and implement multi-tier distributed services and customer experiences
  2. Be involved in designing, implementing, and testing of major features
  3. Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, and adherence to development goals and principles.
  4. Effectively collaborate in a fast-paced environment with multiple teams in large organization for full stack development both backend as well as front end.

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
  • 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

  • complex and ever-changing global tax rates and laws
  • computing calculations correctly and quickly
  • billions of calculations
  • respond within few tens of milliseconds
  • machine learning and computer vision