DESCRIPTION
Job summary
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.
Key job responsibilities
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- A Software Engineer or Software Developer with an appetite for learning and raising the bar
- Understanding of device-side software design principles for security, performance, and reliability
- Experience with mobile or cross-platform UI libraries and graphics APIs
- Hands-on experience with a variety of programming languages such as Rust, C/C++, Go, Java, C#, and Kotlin
- Experience designing, building and releasing libraries and SDKs for use by the developer community
A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you will own critical UI frameworks and apps that make it possible to develop UI applications for Amazon devices. You will create common software components to help Amazon build our smart home devices by working on projects that push the boundaries of customer-device interaction including product lines such as Echo and Fire TV. You will be challenged to create rich customer applications, while also optimizing for performance.
You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative customer experiences. You will create new solutions in a responsive, flexible and collaborative peer environment. You will participate in designing, prototyping, and building solutions to hard problems in the Amazon ecosystem for our exciting future in consumer devices.
As a Software Development Engineer, you will:
- Influence strategy and roadmap through your technical and non-technical insight
- Work with a team of world-class engineers and product managers to understand and refine the scope of incoming projects, and to ensure deliverables meet an unreasonably high quality bar
- Build reliable, high-performance SDKs for a variety of Amazon Devices, such as Amazon Echo and FireTV
- Actively experiment and prototype with novel technologies that improve the customer experience or solve business needs
- Mentor junior team members in career growth and assist in task management and Agile planning
- Work with multiple top-notch internal and external engineering teams to understand and respond to their needs
- Organize and participate in collaborative Q&A sessions, workshops, presentations to share your technical know-how with the rest of the team
- A Software Engineer or Software Developer with an appetite for learning and raising the bar
- Understanding of device-side software design principles for security, performance, and reliability
- Experience with mobile or cross-platform UI libraries and graphics APIs
- Polyglots welcome – hands-on experience with a variety of programming languages such as Rust, C/C++, Go, Java, C#, and Kotlin
- Experience designing, building and releasing libraries and SDKs for use by the developer community
About the team
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 1+ years of experience in software development
- Programming experience with at least one software programming language.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Masters in Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience
- Experienced application frameworks development using C++/Rust
- Extensive experience developing for Linux
- Experience building software for Android, iOS, Mac OS X, or Linux
- Experience with computer graphics APIs like OpenGL, Vulkan, and Metal
- Experience with building software for hardware constrained (low memory) devices
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs and product strategy
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing and operations
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior software engineers in all aspects of their engineering skill-sets