Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.

Are you someone looking to showcase your skills? How often have you had an opportunity to be a founding member of a cross-functional team tasked with innovating the building blocks of device software? If this sounds intriguing, then we’d like to talk to you about a new role at Amazon.

As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon Common Software team, you will be part of a team that owns critical Android framework components, services, tools, and application development frameworks - working on projects that push the boundaries of customer-device interaction.

You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer product experiences. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. You will participate in designing, prototyping, and building solutions to hard problems in the Android and Amazon ecosystem.


Key job responsibilities
- Influence strategy and roadmap through your technical and non-technical insights
- Work with a team of world-class engineers and product managers to understand and refine the scope of incoming projects, and to ensure deliverables meet an unreasonably high quality bar
- Build reliable, high- SDKs for a variety of Amazon Devices, such as Amazon Echo and FireTV
- Actively experiment and prototype with novel technologies that improve the customer experience or solve business needs
- Mentor junior team members in career growth and assist in task management and Agile planning
- Work with multiple top-notch internal and external engineering teams to understand and respond to their needs
- Organize and participate in collaborative Q&A sessions, workshops, presentations to share your technical know-how with the rest of the team

A day in the life
You will be a part of an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development where you'll lead a team on technical designs and architecture. To build our app based experiences you will interact with product teams to gather requirements, support feasibility analysis and to provide technical solutions that are required in defining our next generation products. One of the important aspects of the role is to develop the best, and you’ll have opportunities to build a team and mentor others by sharing your knowledge across multiple teams as we build a truly unique UI app development experience.

About the team
Our team exists to enable application teams to swiftly create delightful, performant, and interactive applications that span across Amazon and our external partner devices. We are responsible for delivering performance tooling that help our customers to measure the performance and profile the apps to find the root cause of performance issues and we do so by showing the utmost customer obsession. As a part of the Device OS organization, you’ll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end covering product conception to shipping on the vast number of Amazon devices in the field.