Amazon
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London, Greater London
Software Development Engineer - Prime Video
Overview
Job Description
Amazon's Prime Video is a premium on-demand video entertainment service that offers customers the greatest choice in what to watch from popular Prime Original TV shows (made by Amazon Studios) such as The Grand Tour, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan and the recent Golden Globe winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to Prime Original Movies like the Oscar-winning Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman. The service also offers TV shows that are exclusively available for Prime members in each country such as American Gods, MR ROBOT and Outlander, and more recently live sport including the US Open tennis from 2018 and Premier League games from 2019. Beyond this content exclusivity, the service further differentiates from other video-on-demand services by offering Prime members the opportunity to subscribe to 60+ channels like Discovery, Starz, Eurosport Player and hayu and hundreds of thousands of additional titles to watch instantly with no extra apps to download or long term contracts. Prime Video is at the forefront of the entertainment industry and growing fast - now available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide - and we work in a dynamic, and exciting 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... Want to be part of scaling Prime Video across part of millions of hardware streaming devices? We own the Prime Video Linux-SDK that enables third-party partners to integrate the full Prime Video application stack on streaming Living Room hardware devices. This includes, Smart TV manufacturers, system-on-chip manufactures, set-top-box providers and gaming consoles. Our mission is deliver the fastest way that our customers can define, configure, build, integrate and test streaming video apps to scale. We are nearly formed team, ready for creative, expansive, innovative solutions to deliver against our mission. You will gain full experience of Prime Video technical stack, both native and script, obsess about the customer-developer experience and be passionate about creating first-class products. You will collaborate on our technical strategy, be adapt at working cross-team and not be shy of learning new technologies and experimenting. Within the team you will: Collaborate closely with product owner, technical leads to deliver against teams product and technical vision Influence the technical strategy to build products that deliver against our mission and delight our customers You will drive team discussions on system architecture, component design and improvements Lead design, development of core features and products Be part of all stages of software development life-cycle, including definition, design, development, implementation Be part of the team estimation/planning activities