Description

The Amazon Devices team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Dash, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

Along with leading in web services and e-commerce, Amazon.com is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics including our best-selling e-readers and tablets, and Fire TV.

Fire TV client software and services technologies are enjoyed by millions of customers the world over. You will drive key engineering and business decisions that impact Amazon’s long-term vision, including innovation in the delivery and consumption of media and entertainment. We leverage cutting edge technology in client-app frameworks, big data, machine learning, optimization techniques and high availability services. Here on the Fire TV team, we are dedicated to creating the most engaging entertainment platform for the whole family, worldwide. In this role you will:

• Lead the design of new features and initiatives across the organization.

• Investigate, prototype, and deliver new and innovative software applications.

• Deliver high quality software through working in a dynamic, team-focused Agile/Scrum environment.

We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented software engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used every day, by people you know. This is a high visibility team where you will get a chance to make a positive impact on customer experience.

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Development Engineer you will:

• Lead E2E architecture, design, implementation, support, and evaluation of technology-focused tools and services.

• Provide leadership and innovation in the design and implementation of services to enable new products and services.

• Evaluate complex business and technical requirements, and communicate inherent risks and solutions to technical and non-technical business owners.

• Act as point of contact for communications dealing with project deliverables, setting the expectation, managing priorities, technologies, human factors and management issues.

• Establish consistence project management processes, standards and guidelines in the execution of program wide security efforts. Engage enterprise wide teams as needed with focus on results.

• Mentor more junior team members in their career growth.

Remember, you do not have to tick every box to apply for the role. If you are excited about joining us and think you have what we are looking for, we would love to hear from you.

A day in the life

If you join our team, you will get to build new products and features from the ground up. You will lead teams that define, build features and product experiences used by thousands of customers watching FireTV. We work across multiple internal teams as well as product to define what we are building and make it a reality. As the FireTV org we get to work horizontally across many exciting new device types.

About the team

This team’s primary focus is to develop the product and experiences to swiftly create delightful, performant, and interactive devices for our FireTV ecosystem. We are responsible for working closely with product managers and end customers to build the right features, devices and cloud experiences that enlight customers. As a part of the FireTV organization, you’ll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end from product conception to ultimately shipping on the vast number of Amazon FireTV devices in the field.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Madrid, M, ESP

Basic Qualifications

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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