Software Development Engineer II, Device OS

Do you want to develop the next generation products in Entertainment Devices space? Do you enjoy working in an entrepreneurial environment solving complex technical problems and delivering innovative solutions? Do you like to directly impact the customer experience of Purchase, Download & Install the apps in Amazon AppStore? If so, join us on the Amazon Appstore Distribution team.

The Appstore Distribution team develops products, services, SDKs, tools for mobile app developers to manage their apps on Amazon Appstore as well as build systems to curate catalog of hundreds of thousands of mobile apps to enable them on Fire TV and Fire Tablet store.

Key job responsibilities
Do you want to solve business challenges through innovative technology? Do you enjoy working on cutting-edge, scalable services technology in a team environment? Do you like working on industry-defining projects that move the needle?

At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. Our Software Development Engineers (SDEs) use cutting-edge technology to solve complex problems and get to see the impact of their work first-hand.

The challenges SDEs solve in Amazon Appstore are big and influence hundreds of millions of customers, millions of App Developers and varieties of products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.

If this sounds interesting to you, apply and come chart your own path at Amazon.

A day in the life
As a Software Dev Engineer II in this team, you will define and build innovative consumer product experiences with a direct impact on the design, architecture and implementation of flagship products that customers love and use every day. The ideal candidate will have industry-leading programming skills, an established background developing consumer applications and services across mobile platforms (Android) or high-volume service architectures, and an industry-leading knowledge of object-oriented development.

Your day starts with daily stand-up call, connecting & collaborating with your peers for design & code reviews, come up with robust & highly scalable solutions, Agile practices etc.


About the team
In Appstore, We entertain, and delight, hundreds of millions of customers across devices with a vast selection of relevant apps, games and services by making it trivially easy for developers to deliver . Appstore team enables the customer and developer flywheel on devices by enabling developers to seamlessly launch and manage their apps/in-app content on Amazon. It helps customers discover, buy and engage with these apps on Fire TV, Fire Tablets and mobile devices. The technologies we build on vary from device software, to high scale services, to efficient tools for developers. - 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