Software Development Engineer, Amazon WebView

Description

The Amazon WebView team is seeking talented software development engineers to design, implement, and maintain the next generation web solution for our device software. Be part of a team that builds on and extends open source systems to deliver results and enable millions of hours of web-based experiences on consumer devices worldwide.

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive San Francisco Bay Area research and development team that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronic devices and services. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have produced groundbreaking devices like Kindle Fire tablets, Kindle e-readers, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and more.

Key job responsibilities

We are looking for a talented, detail-oriented and enthusiastic Software Development Engineer who is passionate about quality and delivering for customers. As a Software Development Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. Duties include research, design, implementation, documentation, and maintenance of new and existing software in order to deliver the core WebView engine. Our team is still on Day 1, and you will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting-edge products used every day, by people you know.

A day in the life

You will work up and down the device software stack, writing APIs in React Native and building, debugging, and maintaining a web engine written in C++. WebView engineers must be comfortable working both with low level platform integrations and debugging world-class web apps written in HTML and JavaScript. Areas of particular focus on our team include integration with the graphics layer, media playback, web APIs, and integration with the OS’s UI layer.

About The Team

The team is currently based in beautiful Sunnyvale, CA and Seattle, WA. We focus on designing, building, improving, and optimizing a web engine that’s key to the customer and developer flywheel on devices. We enable developers to build and seamlessly launch their apps/in-app content which in turn helps customers discover, buy and engage with these apps on Echo and Fire TV.

Basic Qualifications

1. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

1. 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
2. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
3. Experience in embedded development in C/C++
4. Experience with Chromium or WebKit development

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies.

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A2741938