Sr. Software Engineer, Ring

Rings mission is to reduce crime in neighborhoods. With affordable solutions that work on any home, Ring is committed to offering smart security that s accessible to everyone. Now Ring is part of the Amazon Devices family, and is seeking a Software development engineer who will help us create the next generation of home security. What will you help us create?

You will be part of a global organization, and a team that makes decisions on how technical solutions are delivered, working in a cross-functional way with internal teams to drive key aspects of product definition, execution, testing and operation. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to make an impact on our customer experience across the world.

Key job responsibilities
As a senior engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of core applications and services within the Ring core engineering team. This role will work closely with a cross-functional team of engineers (mobile, front-end, backend), product managers, designers, and marketers to design, test, learn, and iterate on solutions in a fast-paced environment.

You will:
Be responsible for the development and maintenance of core services
Work with team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility
Participate in the architecture and design of new features, from conception to launch
Help to improve engineering processes and tools to increase team effectiveness
Be part of an agile development process to deliver high-quality software
Be given the opportunity to autonomously deliver the technical direction of services, against the feature roadmap
Work with extraordinary talent and have the opportunity to hire and shape the team to best execute on the product.

A day in the life
This role provides a unique opportunity to be a key part in shaping the core of Rings offerings to our customers. You will work across teams to prototype ideas and solve complex problems, and raise the bar of our applications & services by advocating and driving software best practices, automating tasks and identifying pitfalls. As part of the team, you will continue to learn and become an expert in challenging fields. You will have the opportunity to contribute your creative ideas and energy, working with world-class experts, distributed cloud systems and home security devices.

About the team
This role is specifically for Ring Partner Integrations team which is responsible for integrating Ring devices with 2Ps and 3Ps like Alexa, Samsung among others. Team use a diverse set of AWS technologies including: S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, API Gateway, Cloudwatch, Elastic Search, Lambda, Cloud Auth, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, along with Amazon s standard Builder Hub Tools. - 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team