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Amazon Software Development Engineer in JAL, Mexico
Description
Do you want to work on the team responsbile for building frameworks for the next generation of Application framework running on Amazon Devices? Do you believe in the “Write Once Run Anywhere” coding paradigm? How about your team providing a positive impact to our smart home customers by ensuring unique Amazon technologies are easily available to app developers? Do you want to work in a horizontal team making an impact on a wide range of products? If so, join us as Software Development Engineer to build app building frameworks in Device OS.
Amazon 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, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you will take your technical experience to deliver consumer devices that enable Amazon services in the homes of our customers. In the primary scope of this role you will own new frameworks for building visual apps for Amazon devices. These critical frameworks will make it faster and easier than ever for application developers to write software for our devices. If you have a passion for on-device software, and making it easy for app developers to create interactive visual experiences, this is an ideal position for you. This role will allow you to push the boundaries of what customers can do by driving efficient and scalable solutions. You will focus on common software that runs across device types, giving you scale to solve multiple use cases at once. You will be challenged to create OS services and tools, while also optimizing for performance and ease of use by customers.
Ideal candidates will use their experience to clearly communicate and translate requirements into elegant solutions. You will work in a responsive, flexible and collaborative peer environment.
A day in the life
You will be a part of an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development where you will work on technical designs, architecture and coding. To build our app based experiences you will interact with engineering teams to gather requirements, provide technical solutions and develop the software that are required in defining our next generation products.
About the team
Our team exists to enable application teams to swiftly create delightful, performant, and interactive application experiences that span across Amazon and our external partner devices. We are responsible for delivering application frameworks and foundational pieces that are critical for UI application development and we do so by showing the utmost customer obsession. As a part of the Device OS organization, you’ll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end covering product conception to shipping on the vast number of Amazon devices in the field.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Guadalajara, JAL, MEX | Mexico City, DIF, MEX
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