Software Development Engineer,

Description
Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale.

We are seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our team in Tallinn, Estonia. This is an opportunity to define the future of audio entertainment as you build innovative experiences used by millions of Amazon Music Customers. As a Software Development Engineer, you take end-to-end ownership of technologies that will help customers discover and engage with audio in new ways. You will harness the power of machine learning to help define and build new Amazon Music experiences that make it easier for customers to discover and fall in love with music, audiobooks, and podcasts.

Key job responsibilities

• Work backwards from the needs of our customers, translating complex functional and technical requirements into detailed software architecture and design
• Implement and deploy highly distributed, resilient and scaleable services
• Be hands-on and drive team-wide best practices for operation excellence
• Stay current on knowledge to keep pace with rapidly changing science and technology, and work with the team in bringing new technologies on board
• Jointly work across teams to influence the overall technical strategy of Amazon Music

About The Team
Our team works with modern AI technologies to transform how customers discover and engage with music and podcasts. We are focused on building personalized and dynamic experiences that allow customers to use natural language to find the content they already love and discover new content they'll love just as much. These experiences work seamlessly across our mobile apps, web player, voice-forward audio engagement products on mobile and Amazon Echo devices, in car integrations and more. Amazon Music is available in countries around the world, and our applications support our mission of delivering music and podcasts to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives.

Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music and podcast listening, and customer engagement. Come join us as we make history by launching exciting new projects.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• Experience in professional, non-internship software development
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through to actual launch of the project
• Experience building workflows involving large dataset and/or machine learning models in production using distributed computing and big data processing concepts and technologies.
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Highly proficient in both spoken and written Estonian and English (Common European Framework of Reference C1)
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

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Company
- Snackable OU

Job ID: A3030805