Software Development Engineer, PV Marketplace Tech in London, United Kingdom

Description

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?

Amazon’s 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 from Originals and Exclusive content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel, renew 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.

This job will challenge you on various fronts. You will solve technical challenges in optimization, large-scale computing, distributed systems, scalability, security, and algorithms as well as work across unified tech stack that can power various client devices such as smart TVs, gaming consoles, Web and mobile devices. You will drive future solutions that will impact how we run Prime Video worldwide by collaborating with many teams.

You should have an established background in launching distributed and/or web services for consumer-facing products, ideally experience with UX technologies such as React, a strong technical ability, excellent organizational skills, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a rapidly changing environment, and, of course, a real passion for TV and film!

You will be able to see the big picture, be creative, experiment fast and positively impact millions of customers.

We are an evolving business where creativity and drive can have a lasting impact on the way video is enjoyed worldwide.

Key job responsibilities

You will engineer customer facing systems that give our customers the most compelling reasons to stay with their video subscriptions. You will work with partner teams and stakeholders to ensure your tech designs look around the corners, integrate well with your dependencies and can handle the scale at which Amazon operates!

A day in the life

You will work with Product owners to understand the customer experience we want to build and work on defining the prioritization of product features. You will own the tech design for which you will work within your teams and your partner teams to make the right tech decisions including trade-offs that build idempotent systems at Amazon’s scale. You will participate in reviewing design docs put forward by others while also soliciting inputs from wider senior engineering forums on your designs. You will translate your design documents into crisp working backwards plans which you will then execute by building actual customer facing systems. You will learn about every service that your team owns and participate in troubleshooting and mitigating customer impacting interesting problems that the team uncovers.

About the team

Within Prime Video, at Marketplace Tech we focus on bringing content selection through Channels (the ability to subscribe to premium video content), Transactional Video on Demand (TVOD; the ability to rent and purchase movies, TV shows, and Pay-Per-View sports) and expanding these capabilities to net new marketplaces/countries. Marketplace Tech’s mission is critical to PV’s vision of becoming the world’s best global entertainment hub and delivers towards it by increasing the content selection and diversity of offerings available to customers. We focus on earning and keeping customer and partner trust through transparent and easy-to-use purchase and post-purchase experiences.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

• Experience in professional, non-internship software development

• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

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