Apart from the excitement of building technology, this role focuses on delivering a high-quality video discovery and viewing experience for Amazon MX Player across mobile and living room devices. Amazon MX Player is Amazon India’s initiative to shape the future of free AVOD with a strong engineering culture and scale.
Responsibilities
- Develop best in class video discovery and viewing experience across mobile and living room devices (LRDs), building highly available and scalable applications that power a great entertainment experience.
- Work on Amazon MX Player applications on iOS-based mobile apps.
- Bring expertise and ideas in distributed computing, scalable architecture, UX design, performance and metrics reporting to help our fast-paced business grow and evolve.
- Serve as technical lead to mentor a team of engineers on mobile engineering best practices while delivering the next generation of experiences on Amazon MX Player apps.
- Collaborate closely with product teams to refine scope of incoming projects and ensure deliverables meet a high quality bar.
A day in the life
- Hands-on with developing apps, submitting and reviewing code to set the coding standards bar for the team.
- Design and review architectural and software design documents to raise the engineering bar for the team.
- Deep dive and provide technical guidance on topics such as video playback, application performance, and addressing security risks.
- Participate in scrum meetings to unblock the team and contribute to planning exercises.
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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