Software Development Engineer, Web & Emerging Modalities, Prime Video

Software Development Engineer, Web & Emerging Modalities, Prime Video

Job ID: Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited

Overview

Come build the future of entertainment with us. 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 a first stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. On Prime Video, customers can customise their viewing experience and find their favourite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports - including Amazon MGM Studios produced series and movies Fallout, Heads of State, Reacher, Red One, Road House, The Accountant 2, The Boys, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and The Summer I Turned Pretty; UK produced Originals such as The Girlfriend, Steal, Clarkson's Farm, Molly Mae: Behind it All, My Fault: London and Last One Laughing UK; licensed fan favourites such as Nine Perfect Strangers S2 and The Assassin; Prime member exclusive access to coverage of live sports including UEFA Champions League and NBA, and acclaimed sports documentaries including Built in Birmingham: Brady & the Blues, Sven and the Amazon Original All or Nothing franchise, including All or Nothing: Arsenal. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on. You will directly deliver innovative, exciting experiences on the web and other surfaces with emerging AI technologies to meet customers where they are.

Key job responsibilities

• You will work as part of one of our 2 pizza teams, launching and growing new initiatives for Amazon's global business.
• You will be a significant independent contributor, owning highly impactful business outcomes.
• You will collaborate closely with Product Managers, Program Managers, UX Designers, Engineering partners, and Leadership across the company to deliver those outcomes.
• You will regularly challenge the status quo, and implement high standards of operations on your team.
• You will mentor and grow the next generation of engineers, as well as pursue opportunities to grow your own skills and career.

A day in the life

• You will be a confident full stack engineer. You will own the end to end delivery of customer and platform features - working with full stack web technologies (TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, Sass), back end APIs and webservers (Java, Scala), testing (Storybook, Playwright), and infrastructure (AWS, CDK).
• You will review code, design documents, and plan your work using standardised tools, and processes with your team.
• You will work with product, program, and UX owners to define, refine and iterate on prototypes.

About the team

Our team owns the customer experience of some of the major entry points on Prime Video for video discovery, we drive complex business problems, build global technology solutions to provide customised compelling content to customers in each country where we operate. The team enables Prime Video customers to instantly discover, search, navigate, browse content, and manage preferences, primarily across website platforms using any modern web browser on any device anywhere in the world. The website team is a highly diverse and inclusive group, with passion for building real world solutions, experimentation and innovation at the core of our initiatives. We aim for keeping a self sustainable process of improvement in our tech stack, moving fast for creating new functionalities and delivering for strategic projects across Prime Video. We foster a culture of innovation and continuous growth, building a strong team and setting time for enjoying our work and having fun outside it.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Experience in professional, non internship software development.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object oriented design.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Equal Opportunity

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