Software Development Engineer, FireTV

DESCRIPTION

Amazon FireTV products are revolutionary consumer devices that have become the #1 best-selling Amazon products. They are among the most innovative and fastest growing businesses at both Amazon and the entire consumer electronics industry. The Fire TV devices org is working on a strategic initiative to scale the FTV 3P business with Roadrunner program. With this initiative, we are building cutting edge, enterprise quality tools and platform to enable and empower the FTV partners to launch their TVs in self-service manner, at scale. We are looking for passionate and talented software engineer who have wide experience in building innovative, mission critical, client facing applications, that customers love. As a software development engineer, you will be part of Customization and Control Plan stream, where we are focusing on building frameworks and tools for customizations. This team also deep dive in to x-team software components, identify issues and gaps, propose tech solution to build scalable 3P FireTV features and customizations. As a software development engineer on this team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of product features from beginning to end. Key job responsibilities
High-level responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to -
* Gather and analyze business and functional requirements, and translate business requirements into technical design specifications.
* Write high-quality, efficient, testable code and recommend improvements in development, maintenance, and system standards, and contribute to software documentation.
* Be responsible for technical problem solving, meeting product objectives, and developing best practices
* Work with different partner teams, come up with design
* Track and report on metrics which are key performance indicators, allowing performance improvements so that the desired outcomes are achieved to plan and in a timely manner
* Serve as an essential technical resource in the full development cycle.
* Mentor junior team members in career growth
* Work in an agile development environment. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Chennai, TN, IND

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