Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Prime Video Payments
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- Amazon’s 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, renew 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
- Solve technical problems in an ambiguous space with a huge customer/architecture impact
- Develop and have input into the design of the architecture used for both our user interface and backend services
- Work with key stakeholders throughout Prime Video and beyond at Amazon
- Help shape our technology stack now and into the future
- The team owns the Tier 1 services that enable all Prime Video customers to Buy, Rent or Subscribe to our products. We validate the eligibility of the customer to perform the transaction; process transactional data through to the general ledger; and ensure the correct fulfilment of customer’s rights
- They are typically on the critical path for most, PV launches. In addition to this, the team is also driving an ambitious program of architectural investments over the next 2-3 years to support the rapid worldwide scaling of PV capabilities such as completely leveraging AWS technology
- The Payments team is looking for a Software Development Engineer to help drive the team's vision of allowing Prime Video customers to seamlessly purchase, rent or subscribe to our products in one second or less with zero faults, having the uttermost confidence in the reliability of our systems and with the payment method of customer’s choice
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Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Founders
Jeff Bezos
(Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO (not founder))Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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