Software Development Engineer

Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.
In this role, you will be joining the Stockholm-based live low latency streaming team. We deliver Sye, a revolutionary streaming platform primarily used for live sporting events and concerts. Our ambition is to drastically improve the customer experience of watching live streams by providing minimal latency and synchronized playback to all viewers across the globe. Key job responsibilities As a developer on our live low latency streaming player team, you will innovate on and improve the components providing live streaming capabilities to end user applications. The platforms we support include Android, iOS, web, smart-TVs, set-top-boxes and game consoles, where you will focus on a subset of them. Your will work on the SDKs we provide as well as their integration into Prime Video applications that are used by millions of customers around the world. Your work will also include developing reference and demo implementations, setting up automated tests for different hardware and software platforms.
As part of the Sye team you will be involved with daily stand-ups, coding, code reviews for team members, internal and cross team meetings to align on technical complexities, estimate deliveries with milestones and write technical documents. Large events involves planning of new features to be deployed, tests to be performed and data to be analyzed in order to continuously improve the customer experience. Status and goals tracking are expected every so often. About the team The team owns the live low latency player SDKs for supported platforms, and we also work on the integration of them into Prime Video applications. We are growing, and with us you will also be able to grow as we work together. There are lots of opportunities to interact with other teams globally. Together with partners such as Twitch and IMDb TV, we are part of a strong video streaming community that will be available to you.
Basic qualifications:
Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
Proficient in at least one of Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, JavaScript, C++
Algorithms, data-structures, efficiency, concurrency, performance optimization
Object-oriented development and design patterns
Written and verbal English communications skills

Preferred qualifications:
Experience in developing and maintaining applications, frameworks or SDKs for Android, iOS, tvOS, Smart TVs, game consoles or web
Experience in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Experience in video streaming applications
Experience in development for WebAssembly deployments
Multi-device compatibility testing
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

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