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Amazon Sr. Software Dev Engineer (L6), Prime Video - iOS Client in London, United Kingdom
Description
The vision of the Prime Video iOS app team is to be the entertainment hub of choice on Apple devices. Help us reimagine and build the best experience to watch Prime exclusives, TV shows, movies, and channels subscriptions, for all customers, in all places, at all times.
Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - 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.
Key job responsibilities
The Prime Video Mobile organization is seeking an engineering leader that will help in building an iOS product that will delight customers worldwide. You will lead efforts to redesign the iOS app to unblock developers to deliver new features to customers faster. You will mentor developers to model your high bar for quality, telemetry, and operational excellence. You proactively identify and implement improvements to the customer experience. Your vision will enable customers to have responsive, delightful and intuitive experiences, whenever the interact with Prime Video.
A day in the life
As a leader of mobile applications in Prime Video, you will be deeply engaged in building and maintaining the best experience for our customers. This includes working closely with the product to drive how we will evolve the app in key areas such as navigation, offer clarity, and content selection for mobile scenarios. You will work with development teams across Prime Video to influence engineering best practices. There’s always an opportunity to walk though implementation details with developers at the whiteboard or in a code review. And, for fun, you will dive deep into customer feedback and the operational metrics to solve just one more problem for customers.
About the team
The Prime Video iOS team owns the Prime Video application for iPhone and iPad. We regularly deliver a continually evolving and delightful experience to our continually expanding user base. The team is fully based in London, and comprises a mix of newer and more experienced members. We own a mature product that serves millions of customers, and for many is the primary way that interact with Prime Video.
As much as working hard, you will also have fun as part of the iOS team, welcomed by regular team outings and activities like board games, video game tournaments, and ongoing training opportunities. Working in a hybrid on-site/remote fashion, we're keen to ensure we remain interactive and regularly organize team events, to help maintain the team atmosphere we're so proud of fostering.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
London, GBR
Basic Qualifications
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
Experience in professional, non-internship software development
Experience in development in the last 3 years
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Experience developing and maintaining mobile applications for iOS or Android.
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