Are you interested in jumping into the driver’s seat of our sensational FireTV partner products? We are looking for exceptional talent to join as Software Development Engineer in the Fire TV team.
Our charter is to provide customers and partners a compelling, secure, and robust experience with a steady flow of engaging new features throughout the lifetime of a device.
As a member of the team, you will be working with business partners, software development engineers and testers UI/UX designers to design, implement, test, launch, document, and maintain complex software applications, tools, and systems. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product. You will learn a variety of cutting-edge technologies, development processes, and develop well-rounded skills such as leadership, and effective project management. You will also mentor junior software development engineers.
Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will
- Design, develop, implement, test, and document distributed software applications, tools, systems and services.
- Translate functional requirements into robust, efficient, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture.
- Evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing software products and tools.
- Mentor junior engineers.
About the team
FireTV 3P engineering team is chartered to bring enchanting FireTV experiences to third party devices. This is an opportunity to design, develop and own the software that disrupts TV viewing experience and impact billions of viewers and devices.
We are spinning up a greenfield engineering team to build tools and technologies which will redefine the way 3P partners build their TVs on FireTV ecosystem. With exciting roadmap and launches planned ahead. FireTV 3P engineering team will independently own, deliver and support end to end product journey for partners.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS or a related field
- Industry experience as a software development engineer using languages: C++, Java, or other object oriented languages
- Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
- Writing secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Passionate about learning new technologies
- Eager to learn and learn fast, enjoy a fast paced environment
- Good understanding of full stack development.
- Experience with low level software development·
- Proven track record of managing multiple work streams concurrently.
- Strong written and verbal communication ·
- Strong problem solving skills
- Ability to drive innovation
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies
- Experience with the lifecycle of consumer device development and production
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