Software Development Engineer, Device OS

Software Development Engineer

Do you want to build frameworks for the next generation of UI apps running on Amazon Devices? Do you believe in the "Write Once Run Anywhere" coding paradigm? How about your code 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 to build UI and app 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 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.

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you will own critical App frameworks components that make it possible to manager applications for Amazon devices. You will create common software components to help Amazon build our smart home devices by working on projects that push the boundaries of customer-device interaction including product lines such as Echo and Fire TV. You will be challenged to create rich customer applications, while also optimizing for performance.

You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative customer experiences. You will create new solutions in a responsive, flexible and collaborative peer environment. You will participate in designing, prototyping, and building solutions to hard problems in the Amazon ecosystem for our exciting future in consumer devices.

A day in the life

• You will be a part of an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development where you'll write code, as well as work on technical designs and architecture.
• We are building the OS foundations, enabling you to interact with product teams to gather requirements, support feasibility analysis and to provide technical solutions that are required in defining our next generation products.
• One of the important aspects of the role is to develop the best, and you'll find opportunities to have a mentor as well as mentor others by sharing knowledge across teams as we build a truly unique UI app development experience.

About the team

The framework components are horizontal OS system services that applications and native service daemons will leverage. Our team exists to enable application teams to swiftly create delightful, performant, and interactive UI experiences that span across Amazon and our external partner devices. We are responsible for delivering app frameworks and foundational pieces that are critical to the operating system 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.