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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.

Amazon Photos is looking for a Front End Focused Software Dev 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 new experiences & features to bring joy to our customer base.

- You will be developing new features on frontend stacks in React Native, Swift and Kotlin

- 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.

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. These Apps are developed using leading edge frontend stacks in Swift, Kotlin and React Native and are used by a large customer base. We operate at large scales using best of breed backend services and we move fast to delight our customers.

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

- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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.