Software Development Engineer II, Alexa Smart Home Cameras.

The Alexa Smart Home Cameras team is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer. The ideal candidate is an innovative self-starter who is looking for an opportunity to be both an individual contributor and technical lead.
Alexa Smart Home Cameras team enables Alexa with a sense of sight around customers homes with innovative experiences like “Alexa, show the front door” or other ambient features like automatic announcements with a live view of cameras where interesting events (person/package/doorbell) were detected. We provide a suite of APIs for 1P (Ring, Blink) and 3P partners to integrate with and enable these capabilities for their cameras. We achieve this by developing technology across Computer Vision, media streaming, real-time communication, and the Alexa app. Our customers are end-consumers who want to use Alexa-enabled devices to simplify their experiences with their smart home cameras and doorbells, as well as the developers that make the devices, like Ring, Arlo, Nest, and Wyze.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer on the Cameras team, you will lead the technical aspects of Cameras customer experience on Echo, FireTV devices and engage with experienced cross-disciplinary teams to design, implement and bring to market innovative products and features. You will -

• Design and build reliable, high-performance applications for a variety of Amazon devices (e.g., Amazon Echo, FireTV) at a high-quality bar
• Drive and lead software design, development standards, team processes and code reviews.
• Optimize software libraries for low latency, CPU and memory footprint.
• Deliver high-quality software through working in a dynamic, team-focused Agile/Scrum environment
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver the best product for our customers
• Contributing to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.

Basic Qualifications:
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience

Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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