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Posted date: Apr 01, 2025
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Location: Seattle, WA
Estimated salary: $176,450
Range: $129,300 - $223,600
Description
Amazon Photos is looking for a Software Development Engineer to aid in building solutions for our Amazon Photos Voice Experience. You will ensure that the best engineering practices are followed and that our software is designed to be responsive, reliable and maintainable. You will be working with our great designers and product team to build software that millions use. You will work closely with other teams throughout Amazon to design and architect solutions that will scale to hundreds of millions of customers. You will be a role model and mentor for other engineers on the team. You will be part of a strong team in a fast-paced, start-up like environment where agile development is embraced and innovation is encouraged.What we are looking for: You are an experienced Software Engineer who can help spearhead the development of voice-enabled photo experiences, integrating natural language interactions with our visual content platform. In this role, you'll innovate at the intersection of Alexa and photos , creating intuitive ways for users to organize, share, and experience their memories through voice commands.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy photo features for the voice experience on Amazon Devices
- Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.
- Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop innovative, consumer facing device experiences using a variety of technologies.
- Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
- Analyze and optimize applications to maximize speed and scale, factoring in network latency and bandwidth constraints.
- Improve Operational Excellence including latency and scalability.
- Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software with high velocity.
- Help define standards, implement them, and promote best practices for your team.
- Collaborate with product managers and UX designers to develop requirements and create solutions.
About the team
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. 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.
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
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
Extended 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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