Software Development Engineer II - Amazon Photos , Storytelling
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Photos helps consumers preserve and re-live their memories. The service comes with unlimited photo storage for Prime members and apps are available on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop, Fire Tablet & Fire TV. The service is also integrated into Alexa devices such as Echo Show and Echo Spot.
Key job responsibilities
Amazon Photos is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join the Storytelling team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute significantly to the future of Amazon Photos in terms of affecting our large customer base and providing more complex and fulfilling storytelling experiences. Our backlog of features are fun and challenging; when these features are productionized they bring true joy to our customers.
We are a team that cares about your work-life balance, while challenging you to solve problems at Amazon scale. You will be part of a strong team in a fast-paced, start-up environment where agile development is embraced and innovation is encouraged. You will get support and resources from some of the smartest people in the industry to continue your personal and professional growth.
Key job responsibilities
You will work on a team building backend mechanisms to support new experiences / features to bring joy to our customer base.
You will be developing in Java, Python and using best ML techniques to support our customers
When given a business problem, you create a technical strategy and deliver with limited guidance.
You have a high attention to detail, working closely with business and technical stakeholders to drive measurable results.
You successfully launch software for the business and resolve architectural deficiencies.
You contribute to improve engineering, test, and operational excellence best practices on your team.
A day in the life
Amazon Photos is the latest digital offering to consumers released on the heels of the Amazon Music and Amazon Video offerings. We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of the service around the world and delight our customers with a great product.
About the team
The storytelling team curates joyful photographic customer moments and weaves them into majestic short video(s) to help them relive their experiences. We use an assortment of Machine Learning techniques to bring the best curated photos to the fore, from which we vend these photo collections to our highly performance apps in Web, iOS, Android and FireTV. We operate at large scales using best of breed backend services and we move fast to delight our customers. We also understand and apply concepts such as Microservice architecture, performance optimization, caching and weblab experimentation to improve the efficiency of vending Amazon photos collections.