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Job summary
Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today with the mission to provide customers world’s best-in-class digital video experience across every platform every device and all geographies.
The Prime Video X-Ray team mission is to build enriching and immersive experiences that provide customers new ways to interact with the Prime Video content. Today, Millions of viewers rely on us to enrich their live game experience with real time game stats, instant replays and watch movies with scene and actors information while shopping directly from prime video. The Prime Video X-Ray Clients team is a new team who's mission to build bar raising immersive client experiences for live games and next generation video on demand across Web and Living room platforms.
Our vision is to enable customers to dive deeper and learn about the content they are watching on their devices. Our mission is to make Prime Video the best choice for customers experiencing entertainment on Web and Living Room platforms. We deliver Movies, TV Shows, Live Sports Events for a world-wide customer base.
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to own and build bar raising client experiences for Prime Video Web and Living Room Apps. This role is one of full ownership for features – from design to development & deployment. In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute significantly to the future of X-Ray experience on Live Sports, Movies and TV Shows. You will be part of a strong team in a fast-paced, start-up like environment where agile development is embraced and innovation & thinking big is encouraged.
In this role you will:
· Design, develop and deploy new features for our Web and Living Room apps, working with multiple platform teams.
· Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop highly innovative, consumer-facing Web and Living Room apps.
· Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.
· Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology, and evaluate technical feasibility.
· Actively collaborate with Product Managers and UX Designers to shape the user experience
· Work in an agile / scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules.
· Establish architectural principles, select design patterns, and mentor team members on their appropriate application.
· Help define and implement standards and promote best practices for the mobile development team.
· Analyse and optimize applications to maximize speed and scale, factoring in mobile network latency and bandwidth constraints
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
· Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
· 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
· Expertise in Web Development using technologies like Node.js, React, and Scala,
· Expert working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object oriented design
· Expert working knowledge of design patterns
· Strong working knowledge of operating system fundamentals
· Working knowledge of REST service patterns and other client/server interaction models
· Working knowledge of common Internet technologies (e.g. HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX)
· Relentless customer focus
· Excellent analytical skills
· Excellent written and verbal communication
· Experience with the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Java, Swift, C/C++, Objective-C, JavaScript) and open-source technologies (Linux, React, JQuery, etc)
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role