Job Description

• 6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Bachelor\'s degree in computer science or equivalent
• 4+ years experience in Android app development, familiar with development in android native UI and experience in streaming technologies.

Do you want to own cutting edge technology, solve new problems that didn\xe2\x80\x99t exist before, and have the ability to see the impact of your successes?

Amazon is shaping the future of digital video entertainment. We seek engineers who can help us shape and develop a new video product for Amazon in India i.e. for Amazon miniTV, our free ad-supported video streaming service on the Amazon.in shopping app, mobile web, Fire TV and Prime Video. This is an exciting opportunity for a rock-star engineer who wants to work in a start-up like environment and is passionate about digital media and new customer experiences.

Amazon miniTV has scaled up significantly as a service over the last year and we are launching new content regularly. Some of our shows like Physicswallah, Sixer, Case Toh Banta Hai, Half CA, Hip Hop India have won several awards and seen significant viewer adoption. In 2023, our plan to launch 900+ new exclusive content hours. You can read about the service here:

• https://blog.aboutamazon.in/entertainment/amazon-india-launches-minitv-a-free-video-streaming-service
• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spotlight/amazon-india-launches-minitv-a-free-video-streaming-service-within-the-amazon-app/articleshow/82676790.cms

This a leadership role in our Tech organization. You should be comfortable diving deep into technical architectures and requirements, be able to quickly identify solutions to challenges discovered during development, and ready to work with latest mobile technology. Prior experience building stable, scalable, solutions is required. Prior experience with video streaming, mobile or advertising is a plus. Successful candidates will thrive in fast-paced environments that leverage agile planning techniques, encourage and reward creative design, intelligent risk taking, and find innovative ways to leverage cutting edge technology.

This is a unique opportunity to work with some of the best engineers at Amazon (and probably in the world) and one of the best teams at Amazon (rated very highly in a company-wide yearly assessment), be part of a new initiative from scratch which is going to become a huge area of growth for Amazon\'s Advertising business and pioneer the usage of new technology at Amazon scale.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE 3), you will:

• Develop best in class video discovery and viewing experience across mobile & living room devices (LRDs), building highly available and scalable applications that power a great entertainment experience.
• You will work on Amazon miniTV applications on Android-based mobile and LRD (Living Room Devices) apps.
• You will bring your expertise and ideas in the areas of distributed computing, scalable architecture, UX design, performance and metrics reporting to help our fast-paced business grow and evolve.
• You will be the technical lead to mentor a team of engineers on mobile engineering best practices while delivering the next generation of experiences on Amazon miniTV apps. You will be working closely with product teams as well to refine scope of incoming projects, and ensure deliverables meet a high quality bar.
• Mentor junior team members in career growth and assist in task management and planning
• Participate and report in senior management forums on progress made and forward looking plans.

A day in the life
You are hands-on with developing apps, submitting and reviewing code to set the coding standards bar for our team. You will design and review architectural and software design documents to raise the engineering bar for the team. You will deep dive and provide technical guidance on specific topics (i.e. video playback, application performance, addressing security risks). You will participate in scrum meetings to unblock the team. You will provide input to our quarterly and yearly planning exercises.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bangalore, KA, IND

• Master\'s degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience in OTT / video streaming industry is preferred. Development experience with AWS components is a plus.