Amazon Live, part of Amazon Shopping Videos (ASV) is one of the fastest growing strategic programs at Amazon. We are a young group whose mission is to entertain and inspire Amazon customers through Live video streaming as they shop, enabling them to learn more about products while connect them with social influencers and content creators.

As a senior engineer on the Amazon Live Core Services team, you will develop a best in class video processing and content viewing experience across mobile and desktop. You will build and maintain critical live broadcast pipelines that power compelling CX features World Wide. This team owns and manages 1) the AWS IVS backed video stack(Backend) 2) video playback experiences(Frontend), and 3) Customer-facing interactivity features such as Chat, Follow, Shop etc. , think of the full Tiktok Live shopping experience. You will spend most of your effort on frontend technologies(React, React Native) and integrations to our systems.

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who likes to deliver in a fast-paced environment to demonstrate impact that will enable the explosive growth of video in Amazon.

Key job responsibilities
- Build lovable, fluid customer experiences to delight customers to view videos and shop as they watch videos working with a cross-functional group of Engineers, UX + Product team, Marketing, Applied Scientists.
- Lead a group of Engineers on complex front-end projects that millions of Amazon Customers interact with every day.
- Expertise in modern frontend architecture patterns, state management, and component-based design.
- Experience with design system implementation and component libraries.
- Experience with performance optimization for high-frequency UI updates and complex state changes.
- Knowledge of accessibility standards and internationalization best practices.
- Work on a wide breadth of tech (optimize video recommendations, build low-latency rendering systems and responsive, modern CX)

A day in the life
You'll work with a cross-disciplinary team to design and implement Video experiences. Self-driven engineers will enjoy the autonomy to impact millions of customers regularly.