Software Development Engineer II - Content Discovery Experiences - Prime Video

Job summary

• You will design and develop features that will be used by all Prime Video customers on all supported devices world wide.
• You will use the cutting edge technology and many AWS services
• You will work in a team and collaborate with talented and highly motivated engineers.
• You will be able to own the full lifecycle of feature development, that will involve gathering product requirements, tech approach, implementation and release to customers.

Key job responsibilities
Prime Video (PV) is a premium entertainment service that offers customers the greatest choices in what to watch, and how to watch it. PV delivers movies and TV shows instantly to TVs, tablets, game consoles and PCs worldwide. This is a young and evolving business within Amazon where creativity and drive can have a lasting impact on the way video is enjoyed worldwide. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be creative, and positively impact millions of customers. We’re building the future of TV—yes, it’s challenging, but it’s also a lot of fun.

The Storefront Automation team's mission is to empower Amazonians in delivering Earth's most customer-centric video experience and increasing customer engagement by building products that automate all storefront merchandising and scale Prime Video’s service expansion. It’s a big goal and we’ll need to invent solutions along the way.

Our platform consists of web-based content scheduling tool, a high performance, low-latency service that uses a graph-based data storefront to compose every storefront page and a number of other services that power experiences on the storefront including carousels and banners. Our platforms are built using cutting edge technology including ReactJS and many AWS services including Lambdas and Elastic Search. Our teams embrace agile methodologies with a focus on test automation and continuous deployment.

The team is seeking a talented and passionate Software Development Engineer to join our team. A successful candidate will have a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, high creativity, great analytical reasoning skills, and, of course, a passion for TV and movies.

A day in the life
You will be building and owning systems that are high performance, low-latency web services that powering the PV and IMDB content discovery experiences on PV’s supported devices worldwide. Our platforms are built using cutting edge technology including Lambdas, S3, Dynamo DB. Our teams embrace agile methodologies with a focus on the highest operational standards, test automation, continuous deployment.

About the team
Our mission is to build a fully-automated Content Selection Platform, that generates storefronts for PV end-customers. Our platform allows other teams, such as Live Events, IMDB to inject content to PV storefronts. We aim to develop a platform that does not require manual support. Our vision is to build capabilities to automate creation, experimentation, and validation of PV storefronts that will ultimately make merchandising optional. This is a big goal that requires innovative thinking. The team insists on the highest development and operational excellence standards. We review our dashboards weekly and take pro-active steps to improve service resiliency and availability.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Programming experience with at least one software programming language.
• 1+ years of experience in software development

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 1 years of real-world experience building best-in-class user experiences and successfully delivering them to customers
• Experience with a modern OO language such as Java, Python, C#, C++
• Knowledge of and experience using Amazon Web Services including DynamoDB, Lambdas, Elastic Search, SQS and S3.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations, as well experience influencing software engineering best practices within your team
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Previously mentored junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective software engineers
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

The pay range for this position in Colorado is $110K - $160K/yr however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.

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