Description

Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in helping shape the future of movies and television? Do you want to help define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?

Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows, movies and live sports - 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 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.

In this role, you will be joining the Stockholm-based live low latency streaming team. We deliver Sye, a revolutionary streaming platform primarily used for live sporting events. Our ambition is to drastically improve the customer experience of watching live streams by providing minimal latency and synchronized playback to all viewers across the globe.

As a Software Development Engineer on our live low latency streaming backend team, you will take a leading role to reinvent and improve the components providing live streaming capabilities to end user applications.

Key job responsibilities

• Building customer-facing applications, tools, and workflows that streamline and scale the Builder Relations team.

• Partnering with people of different roles, backgrounds, and organizations to build automation and tools.

• Participating in all stages of the software development life-cycle, spanning design, development, testing, and operation.

• Iterating on product features based on user feedback. Acting as your own PM when necessary.

• Building and operating entire applications end-to-end, across UI, API, Database, and Infrastructure.

• Participating in design and security reviews for team members to help improve the quality of all our services.

A day in the life

Your typical day will involve lots of coding, system design, problem solving, design reviews, various operational tasks and fun with your colleagues.

About the team

Our team consists of diverse group of engineers with a mix of talents. We value collaboration and inclusivity at work.

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

Stockholm, SWE

Basic Qualifications

• Demonstrated non-internship professional software development experience

• Experience in design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

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

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience

• Expert in TypeScript or JavaScript on frontend and backend

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