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Job summaryPrime Video (PV) is a premium entertainment service that offers customers the greatest choices in what to watch, and how to watch it. PV delivers movies and TV shows instantly to TVs, tablets, game consoles and PCs worldwide. This is a young and evolving business within Amazon where creativity and drive can have a lasting impact on the way video is enjoyed worldwide. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be creative, and positively impact millions of customers. We're building the future of TV-yes, it's challenging, but it's also a lot of fun.The Content Awareness and Promotions (CAP) team is part of the Content Discovery Experience (CDEX) organization within Prime Video. Our vision is to empower Amazonians in delivering Earth's most customer-centric video experience and increasing customer engagement by building products that automate all storefront merchandising and scale Prime Video's service expansion. Amazon invests in creating award-winning original content to drive brand loyalty and increase customer engagement with Prime Video. Our team aims to automate and innovate for our customers to discover these award-winning content from the moment it's made available to stream. This is a green-field project where you will be building solutions from the ground-up. We will be entering the world of Machine Learning, and you will be working on ML models that help our customers discover the right content at the right place and at the right time. You will be building and owning services that are high performance, low-latency web services that power the top marketing placements across all of PV's devices. Our platforms are built using cutting edge technology including API gateway, Lambdas, S3, Dynamo DB, ElasticMapReduce and Kinesis. Our teams embrace agile methodologies with a focus on test automation and continuous deployment.If these customer problems excite you, then this is the team where you can make it all happen. Come be a part of this exciting journey to make prime videos the first choice for viewers across the globe.Key job responsibilities- You are able to take a defined design and turn it into code and deliver it on schedule, applying appropriate technologies and current software engineering best practices.
- You write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
- You are proficient in a broad range of data structures and algorithms, knowing when it is appropriate to use them (and when it is not). You make appropriate implementation trade-off decisions (e.g., array or hash table).
- You participate in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions. You seek to learn the business context and technologies behind your team's software.
- You work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions.
- You invent, refine and develop your solutions to ensure they are meeting customer needs and team goals. You are a passionate advocate for your customer.
- You clearly document your software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components you build.
- You may be part of an oncall rotation. In the event of a problem, you are able to troubleshoot, research the root cause of problems, and thoroughly resolve defects.
- You take ownership of problems (even when outside your own domain), propose solutions, and either take ownership for their resolution or ensure a clear hand-off to the right owner.
- You participate in the interview process and help your team train SDE interns.
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C, or C# including object-oriented design
- Bachelor's degree in computer science related fields OR 1+ years equivalent experience in software development
- Experience with high throughput, multi-threaded systems
- Experience with Kotlin
- Excellence in technical communications with both technical and non-technical peers
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
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