DescriptionAmazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Dash Button, Amazon Echo and Alexa. What will you help us create?At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate & build things for the benefit of our customers. The intense focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – it is part of our company DNA. Our Software Development Engineers play an instrumental role in utilizing cutting edge technology to solve complex problems and get to see the impact of their work.Amazon challenges are big and impact millions of customers, sellers, and countless products across the globe. Our path is not always easy so we are selective about who joins us on this journey. There is a certain kind of person who takes on software development challenges at Amazon – someone excited by the idea creating new platforms, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company whose ship cycles are measured in weeks, not years. If this is you, come build the future with us.Key job responsibilitiesKey Job Responsibilities· Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to develop, design, and bring to market innovative devices, services and software applications· Design and build innovative technologies that solve hard customer problems and increase customer engagement with Amazon products.· Work in teams or as a lead to deliver medium to large software development projects, collaborate with other engineers, partners, Technical program managers, Product managers and User Interface design and Quality Assurance engineers.Be a technical adviser to stakeholders and provide technical information and guidance to leaders.Lead and contribute to operational excellence initiatives and ensure smooth operational execution and monitoring of Software componentsShare knowledge with team members and mentor SDE-Is or new hires and equip them with the knowledge to transform them into contrubuting member.A day in the lifeAs a SDE on the team, you will collaborate with other developers, product managers, technical program managers, team manager and Quality Assurance engineers to understand product and software requirements, come up with design and implementation plans clarifying any ambiguity. Use team and stakeholders to review the design/implementation. Work with TPMs to provide estimates. Participate in Team Sprint planning and execution as well as retrospectives. Be available as On-call when it is the engineer's turn and take care of on-call operational maintenance items. Write documentation for design, implementations, APIs, etc. Mentor other engineers.About the teamFire Tablet is an iconic product and a thriving business adored by customers around the world – but it’s still “day one” in creating engaging experiences for Tablet customers and improving the experience over multi-generations of tablets. Tablet Sunnyvale Software develoment team is responsible for creating, developing, and maintaining compelling Fire Tablet applications for Fire Tablet devices.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
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
Android software stack and Application development expertise
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