SDE - Android/iOS, Prime Video Linear, Virtual Role (L5)
Prime Video is disrupting traditional media with an ever-increasing selection of movies, TV shows, Emmy Award winning original content, add-on subscriptions including HBO and Showtime, and live events like Thursday Night Football. Making great content available to customers, with high availability is just one part of the puzzle. Experimenting with different ways of making this content available to customers is equally important.Linear (24/7 Television or broadcast programming) is one of the key options for Prime Video customers. Although video on demand is on the rise, the global viewing hours weighs in favor of live or scheduled TV and OTT linear streaming is predicted to grow by 64% in next two years. We in Prime Video Catalog are building next gen linear catalog systems to provide best-in-class Linear TV experience to Prime Video customers. It is Day 1 for the linear TV experience on Prime Video.This is your opportunity to take an active role in shaping the future of digital video by defining the next generation of what Amazon customers are watching. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help continue to deliver on our ambitious goals.We are looking for strong developers who are passionate about delivering excellent, digital media experiences to our customers. It is an opportunity to work with Principal and senior engineers to build high-speed data delivery systems, and creating simple solutions for the complex media ingestion and publishing processes.Successful candidates for this position will have a strong background in C++/Java, Python and/or SQL while experience with ElasticSearch, AWS services including Dynamo, SQS, Athena will help you contribute quickly. Equally important to these specific skills are a candidate's ability to multi-task, quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems, and ability to communicate clearly and concisely both written and orally.Key job responsibilitiesYou will help lead the Linear Mobile Client team's transition to owning its mobile experience.This role requires comfort working in both Android and iOS environments. While having a specialty is acceptable, the position involves working on both platforms.Additionally, experience with Fire TV (an Android-based platform) is highly beneficial.A day in the lifeThe day starts with a quick email and Slack check to see if there have been any updates. Your team meetings will begin with a standup at 9:30 a.m. PST, led by one of your peers. Often, you will spin off with another developer or your manager to dive deeper into any questions you might have had earlier.Before lunch, you might connect with a product manager to review a project update and ensure we’re aligned for a big launch next week.Take a break and grab some lunch. Since you will be working from home, maybe enjoy a nice walk?Your afternoons will be spent building. You will work on documentation, review code, and push your own CRs. After a final push to your remote branch, you will log off for the day.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 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- 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems. ...