12 Oct
Amazon
London
Sr. Software Development Engineer, FireTV
Are you interested in jumping into the driver’s seat of our sensational FireTV partner products? We are looking for exceptional talent with Android Open Source Project (AOSP) expertise to join as a Senior Software Development Engineer in the Fire TV 3p Devices team.
Our team's mission is to build delightful FireTV products for our customers and partners with lower cost and faster time to market.
As a member of the team, you will be working with business partners, software development engineers, and testers to design, implement, test, launch, document, and maintain complex software applications, tools, and systems.
You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product. You will learn a variety of cutting-edge technologies, development processes, and develop well-rounded skills such as leadership and effective project management. You will also mentor junior software development engineers.
Key Job Responsibilities
The Role:
As a Senior Software Development Engineer - Systems, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive, design, and bring to market innovative developer tools. You will work closely with an internal interdisciplinary team and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution, and test. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.
The ideal candidate has current and extensive experience developing and building Android systems and applications.
The candidate understands the limitations of the platform and can design and implement additional services or help optimize existing ones to meet the product requirements. The ideal candidate:
1. Has in-depth expertise working with the Android system
2. In-depth knowledge and experience with Linux kernel development
3. Experience on bootloader and device drivers development and enjoys working on hardware directly
4. Enjoys working side by side with partners, colleagues, and teams on tough problems
5. Is highly effective and thrives in a dynamic environment with multiple, changing priorities
6. Knows what is important when releasing software to developers and has been through the process from start to finish
7. Is comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership and never shies away from a challenge
A Day in the Life
In a typical day, you work closely with FireTV and FireOS developers, SoC vendors, ODMs, Hardware team, and technical program managers to create new platform features, customize BSP based on hardware designs, address issues in platform areas like HAL, Linux Kernel, drivers, boot loader, etc., improve system performance and stability, and deliver customer-loving high-quality smart TV products on time.
About the Team
Smart TV Platform team is responsible for the delivery and maintenance of a high-performance and highly stable platform for Smart TV products.
Basic Qualifications
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ 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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▶️ Sr. Software Development Engineer, FireTV
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