Software Development Engineer, Amazon Photos On Devices

Amazon Photos Software Engineer Opportunity

Amazon Photos helps consumers preserve and re-live their memories. The service comes with unlimited photo storage for Prime members and apps are available on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop, Fire Tablet & Fire TV. The service is also integrated into Alexa devices such as Echo Show and Echo Spot. Amazon Photos is the latest digital offering to consumers released on the heels of the Amazon Music and Amazon Video offerings. We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of the service around the world and delight our customers with a great product.

What you will do:

• Provide technical leadership to the teams building Amazon Photos solutions for Echo Show, FireTV, Fire Tablet and Alexa Mobile.
• Ensure that the best engineering practices are followed and that our software is designed to be responsive, reliable and maintainable.
• Work closely with other teams throughout Amazon to design and architect solutions that will scale to hundreds of millions of customers.
• Be a role model and mentor for other engineers on the team.
• Be part of a strong team in a fast-paced, start-up like environment where agile development is embraced and innovation is encouraged.

What we are looking for:

• An experienced Software Engineer who has shipped great software.
• Someone who has built a variety of client software that connects to back end services, balancing the number of service calls and a fast response to the user.
• Someone who likes building client applications and enjoys the freedom and the ability to do things in the mobile space that you just cannot do on other client platforms.
• Someone who knows that a great mobile app not only does the job, but does it with a great flow and look and feel.
• Someone who loves working with a smart, talented team because you know that makes you better.
• Someone who loves solving complex problems with simple code.

Key job responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy photo features for current and future Alexa devices.
• Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.
• Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop innovative, consumer facing device experiences using a variety of technologies.
• Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
• Analyze and optimize applications to maximize speed and scale, factoring in network latency and bandwidth constraints.
• Work closely with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to model voice interactions.
• Develop services to process voice data and integrate with other web services to power the experience on Alexa Devices and mobile apps.
• Launch new features in the US and International markets working closely with other Alexa teams.
• Improve Operational Excellence including latency and scalability.
• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software with high velocity.
• Help define standards, implement them, and promote best practices for your team.
• Collaborate with product managers and UX designers to develop requirements and create solutions.

About the team:

We're technology professionals, photographers and photo enthusiasts who are genuinely passionate about how we can make preserving and re-living digital photographs a simple joy. We're a close-knit team of friendly, collaborative people. We're super smart and love learning.