Software Development Engineer

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Job Summary


Salary
S$5,000 - S$10,000 / Monthly EST

Job Type
Permanent

Seniority
Mid

Years of Experience
At least 5 years

Tech Stacks
C++ API Java Android C Python

Job Description

Do you want to own cutting-edge technology, solve new problems that didnโ€™t exist before, and have the ability to see the impact of your successes?

Amazon is shaping the future of digital video entertainment. We seek engineers who can help us shape and develop new video streaming capabilities for Amazon. This is an exciting opportunity for a rock-star engineer who wants to work in a start-up like environment and is passionate about digital media and new customer experiences.

You should be comfortable diving deep into technical architectures and requirements, be able to quickly identify solutions to challenges discovered during development, and ready to work with latest mobile technology. Prior experience in building solutions for video streaming, mobile app or advertising is required. Successful candidates will thrive in environments that leverage agile planning techniques, encourage and reward creative design, intelligent risk taking, and find innovative ways to leverage cutting edge technology.

This is a unique opportunity to work with some of the best Engineers at Amazon and be part of a rapidly growing initiative which is going to become a huge area of growth for Amazon's Advertising business and pioneer the usage of new technology at Amazon scale.

Key job responsibilities
  •  Actively experiment and prototype with novel technologies that improve the customer experience or solve business needs
  •  Work with multiple internal and external engineering teams to learn and apply best practices
  •  Organize and participate in collaborative Q&A sessions, workshops, presentations to share your technical know-how with the rest of the team
  •  Understanding of device-side software design principles for security, performance, and reliability
  •  Drive building customer experiences on mobile, TV (Living room devices) using cross platform UI libraries and graphics API
  •  Solve distributed systems and recommendation serving problems that manifest only at extremely high scale.
  •  Experience on Android and Player Technology selection, productization & scaling across platforms/devices

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Singapore, SGP

Basic Qualifications
  •  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical discipline
  •  Strong knowledge and production code experience in Java, C/C++ and Python
  •  Strong Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
  •  At least 5 years of experience in building scalable distributed systems.
  •  At least 2 years of experience with building Video Streaming platform related services.
  •  A willingness to dive deep, experiment rapidly and deliver results
  •  Experience in OTT / Video Streaming industry

Preferred Qualifications
  •  Masterโ€™s degree in Computer Science or related field.
  •  Experience building programmatic ad serving systems.
  •  Hands-on experience with open-source technologies, web-services and big data.
  •  Hands-on experience with distributed systems design, including scalability and fault tolerance.
  •  5 years of experience in distributed technologies, object-oriented design & programming methodologies and data storage (relational, key-value) would be a plus.
  •  Experience in OTT / video streaming industry specifically in one of the three areas is a plus:1) Personalization and ML or Transcoding technology 2) Experience working in Android & Player Tech 3) Experience building CMS systems & Video Catalogue Management systems

Company - Amazon Asia-Pacific Holdings Private Limited - D43

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