Software Dev Engineer II, MX Astra

Description

Do you want to work in start-of-the-art technology, solve new problems that didn’t exist before, and have the ability to see the impact of your successes?

Amazon and MX Player recently joined forces to accelerate premium free entertainment for 250 million users in India. With this acquisition, Amazon merged two of India’s most popular free AVOD (or ad-supported video on demand) services – MX Player and Amazon miniTV into one service - Amazon MX Player. We seek engineers who can help us shape and build Amazon MX Player.

Amazon MX Player is Amazon India’s big bet in terms of shaping the future of the free AVOD landscape in India. We are looking for senior creative leader, who can help shape our brand and creatives for our new exciting show slate. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to work in a start-up like environment and is passionate about building clutter breaking creatives / marketing campaigns to build viewer interest for our new shows.

You can read about the service here: https://www.aboutamazon.in/news/entertainment/amazon-minitv-mx-player-merger https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/amazon-merges-minitv-with-mx-player-to-create-a-free-streaming-giant/articleshow/114007982.cms

You'll be part of the team which builds unique OTT viewing experiences for our customers, and the features you build will have a direct impact on the Amazon MX Player customer experience. We are seeking an engineer who can channel their passion for movies and TV entertainment to work backwards from the customer to help us achieve our vision.

You should be comfortable diving deep into technical architectures and requirements, be able to quickly identify solutions to challenges discovered during development, and ready to work with latest mobile technology. Prior experience building stable, scalable, solutions is required. Prior experience with video streaming, mobile or advertising is a plus. Successful candidates will thrive in fast-paced environments that leverage agile planning techniques, encourage and reward creative design, intelligent risk taking, and find innovative ways to leverage latest advances in technology.

In this role, you will develop new features for Amazon MX Player, working with your engineering team, product managers, and UX designers to build web-based products that delight our customers. You will own customer facing features through the entire life-cycle, from design, implementation, testing, deployment and into production. You will work to optimize applications for performance and reliability.

Key job responsibilities

• Ability to code right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Understand basic Algorithm fundamentals.
• Development of code in object oriented languages and build large scale robust distributed systems
• Eagerness to learn newer framework and ecosystems (eg. Android, IOS, React JS, NodeJs
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Programming experience with at least one modern software programming language including object-oriented design.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 1+ years of Software Development experience.
• Excellent coding skills in an object oriented language such as Java and Scala.
• Possess an extremely sound understanding of basic areas of Computer Science such as Algorithms, Data Structures, Object Oriented Design, Databases.
• Good understanding of AWS services such as EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Lambda, API Gateway, ECR, ECS, Lex, etc.
• Great problem solving skills and propensity to learn
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Basic knowledge of atleast couple of the below ecosystems such as Android, IOS, React JS, NodeJs
  
  

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Company - ADCI - Karnataka

Job ID: A2986010