Mobile Software Engineer - Prime Video Sports & Linear Mobile

Mobile Software Engineer, Prime Video Sports & Linear Mobile

Love sports? Want to change the world? Prime Video is re-inventing the live sports experience by merging high-quality live streaming, immersive interactive features, and exclusive access to some of the world's most loved sports properties - including the NFL, NBA, English Premier League and UEFA Champions League soccer, Rolland-Garros (French Open), the US Open and more. Every day we face the challenges of a fast-paced market and expanding technology set. And we're building at a scale only Amazon is capable of. The Prime Video Linear & Sports team is a single-threaded-owner, uniquely positioned to execute our vision across the entire Prime Video stack to deliver the most compelling new experiences to our customers. In the Linear space, Prime Video is disrupting traditional media with an ever-increasing selection of movies, TV shows, Emmy Award winning original content, add-on subscriptions including HBO and Showtime, and live events like Thursday Night Football. Making great content available to customers, with high availability is just one part of the puzzle. If this sounds like the type of experience you'd like to help build - apply here and let's chat!

Who we are:
We are deeply connected with the idea that live sports events are fundamentally different: there is only one shot at delivering the moment until it is forever lost. Our mission is to make sure that our customers never miss a single moment of the sports they love. To do this we need to deliver best-in-class live sports infrastructure, testing, monitoring, and operations to optimize the delivery of live sports experiences at scale. Our team engineers for speed, quality, availability, and scale. As Prime Video has grown, we've increased the depth and breadth of video products we support, with a corresponding increase in the associated size and complexity of our engineering activity and the load on our services. Our goal is to adapt our architecture to maintain and improve our velocity of delivery for customers in the face of these changes, and for our services to be on and error-free 24/7, especially for high-profile, exclusive content. With AI as a transformative force, we're at an inflection point that enables us to unlock new opportunities in predictive analytics, automated defect analysis and mitigation, and automated operations that were previously beyond our reach.

Our team is responsible for Prime Video Linear experiences across the mobile clients - iOS, Android and Apple TV. We are coders and crafts people who care as much about how things look and feel as to the way they function and perform. We seek diverse perspectives and create accessible experiences for all people to enjoy. We strive to move fast for customers but prioritize long term decisions that will scale as we grow.

What we're looking for:
[If you only meet some criteria go ahead and apply, let’s have a conversation.]

We are looking for strong developers who are passionate about delivering excellent, digital media experiences to our customers. It is an opportunity to work with Principal and senior engineers to build simple and elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, cutting-edge features, and getting solutions in front of our millions of customers.

• Strong background in OO design.
• Solid time mgmt./communication skills (both written and orally)
• Ability to support multiple projects at a time.
• Brings strong opinions but loosely held. (Lets best idea rise to the top.)
• Comfort adapting to new development environments and changing business requirements, learning new systems, creating reliable/maintainable code, and finding creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems.

What you’ll do:
• Own architecture and feature development for our Android/iOS and Apple TV apps and middle-tier services.
• Partner with other engineers to ideate, design, and build scalable software solutions.
• Drive test and release automations to increase system reliability and speed to market.
• Collaborate with product managers to influence decisions that deliver customer value.
• Shape the future of Amazon’s mobile video platform.

About the team
Our team focuses on customer-facing, high-visibility, high-impact projects to improve the customer experience for Linear content (24/7 Television or broadcast programming). As a relatively new team, there is very little oncall work, operational burden, or tech debt to deal with, so we can focus on innovation. This is an opportunity to build from the ground up. We are not saddled with any legacy tech, and can choose the best options as we build.

PV Linear provides the opportunity to design and build new full stack features end-to-end. Our technology focuses on real time event based native AWS services and emerging front end platforms including TV and VR.

Our team has access to multiple PEs and SDE IIIs within Linear as well as across Prime Video to regularly engage with. They provide mentorship and support for career progression of our team members.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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