Sr Software Development Engineer, Amazon Music- Big Screens

Amazon.com, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, United States
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Internship / Graduate position
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Computer Programming Software Engineering Information Technology Codebase Programming Languages

Job description

Experteer Overview In this role, you will steer the technical direction for the Big Screens experience, shaping living-room music apps across Fire TV and other TV platforms. You will collaborate with product, design, and engineering to deliver intuitive, high-performance playback and navigation at scale. You’ll tackle architecture and reliability challenges to enable rapid feature innovation and a consistent user experience. This is a mission-driven opportunity to influence how millions of customers enjoy music on their TV devices. Compensation / Benefits * Set and drive the technical direction for major features within the developer experience portfolio * Make architectural decisions and establish engineering best practices for codebase and infrastructure * Mentor SDE 1s/SDE 2s, conduct design reviews and provide technical guidance * Collaborate with Principal Engineers to solve complex technical challenges and align on approaches * Define and uphold engineering and operational excellence standards (design reviews, testing strategy, prod/operational readiness) * Design APIs and frameworks that other teams can reuse to build productivity solutions * Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and operationally excellent * Partner with cross-organizational teams to understand pain points and requirements * Present technical designs and results to leadership and stakeholders Tasks * 5+ years of non-internship software development experience * 5+ years of programming experience in at least one programming language * 5+ years of experience leading design or architecture of new or existing systems * Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team * Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred) Key requirements * health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) * 401(k) matching * paid time off * par ental leave * RSUs and sign-on payments * comprehensive benefits

Requirements

within standards (design reviews, testing strategy, prod/operational readiness) * Design APIs and frameworks that other teams can reuse to build productivity solutions * Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and operationally excellent * Partner with cross-organizational teams to understand pain points and requirements * Present technical designs and results to leadership and stakeholders Tasks * 5+ years of non-internship software development experience * 5+ years of programming experience in at least one programming language * 5+ years of experience leading design or architecture of new or existing systems * Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team * Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred) Key requirements * health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) * 401(k) matching * paid time off * par ental leave * RSUs and sign-on payments * comprehensive benefits

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