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Job summary
Come build the future of entertainment with us.
Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television?

Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows, movies including Originals and Exclusives, live channels, live sports and events - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. Customers can subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and 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.


Key job responsibilities
You will work as part of one of our small Agile teams, launching and growing new initiatives for Amazon’s global business. As an engineer, you can be involved in every aspect of the process - from idea generation, business analysis and technical design through to development and deployment across a variety of technologies - giving you a real sense of ownership. Together we build systems which meet high standards of performance and reliability and operate at massive scale.

A day in the life
Amazon is a place where builders can build. We’re looking for engineers who can delight customers by continually learning and inventing. From day one, you’ll be working with experienced engineers, designers and applied scientists who love what they do.

About the team
We are looking for Software Development Engineers to join the Prime Video Living Room Client (LRC) Edge service team. The LRC Edge team own, constantly improve and maintain the highly resilient, secure and low latency edge service built using native AWS technologies, responsible for fetching data from downstream services required by the front end client to render the Prime Video UI seen on Smart TV's, games consoles, set-top-boxes and streaming devices such as Apple TV and Roku. Tens of millions of customers use the client on over a billion devices globally.

You will work with teams across Prime Video, with UI and backend service teams. The team and service operate at an ever growing scale, meaning you will help solve problems which are unique for Prime Video and Amazon as a whole. This offers plenty of opportunity for growth as you will be able to help shape the future of Prime Video's architecture.

Candidates will have an understanding of stable, scalable systems that have been successfully deployed in a business setting. You will be passionate about technology with a focus on the customer experience and great teamwork.

This role is based on Shoreditch, London, however we intend to work flexibly when things 'return to normal' .

We offer a strong benefits package including healthcare. This is your opportunity to develop a rewarding career, work in a unique environment, and be part of a passionate and international team to work hard, have fun and make history!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
· Bachelor's degree in computer science related fields OR equivalent experience in software development

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience with AWS.
· Experience with contributing to and maintaining production software.
· Experience mentoring and coaching others
· Demonstrated best-practice software engineering including some aspects of agile methodologies, unit testing, refactoring, code reviews, continuous build and deployment processes.
· Advanced coding skills (concurrency, profiling and performance optimisation).
· Designed and built complex systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling).
· Experienced with HTML, CSS, Linux/UNIX (command-line tools, shell scripts, operations).
· Experience in data manipulation and analysis.


All offers are conditional on references, verification of the right to work in the UK, and background screening check. This will include previous employment verification, qualification verification (if relevant) and a basic criminal check. Further details of this policy/procedure will be sent to you along with your conditional offer.


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