The ideal candidate will be curious, creative, goal-oriented, and excited to support other internal team members. You take ownership of your work and are passionate about software quality, consistency, maintainability, performance, and security.
You will own the maintenance, design, development, and deliver of features that delight our neighbors and support our mission. You will have the opportunity to directly contribute to new initiative and services within the Ring ecosystem that enable advanced features like video recording, computer vision detection, voice assistant integrations, among others.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, create, and update functionality for the Ring Billing and Subscription services used by our customers across Amazon and Ring using reusable, test-driven & efficient code.
- Advance the architecture of the application and developing highly scalable systems & APIs that can support a growing business.
- Engage with internal (Engineering, QA, Product, Marketing, Support, etc.) and external stakeholders to lead technical discussion for new product features, analyze feasibility and provide estimates.
- Identify opportunities to improve the user experience on the platforms by researching & incorporating new capabilities to increase efficiency.
- Own the operation excellence, tech debt & security roadmap for the team and prioritize & deliver working closely with Product teams.
- Mentor team members to build scaleable & maintainable solution by leading design review, performing code reviews and participating in defect analysis/RCA.
A day in the life
- Build new features and provide maintenance, support and enhancements for existing ones.
- Create documentation related to the services, APIs and software the team supports
- Take ownership of the team's platform by participating in on-call support/rotation.
- Interact with other Ring and/or Amazon engineering teams on a daily basis
- Work closely with Product team to review requirements and help in prioritization of both the feature & tech backlog.
About the team
Ring, since its founding in 2013, has been on a mission to make neighborhoods safer. From the video doorbell, to Ring Alarm, which was named #1 in Customer Satisfaction for DIY Home Security Systems by J.D. Power, Ring’s smart home security product line, as well as the Neighbors app, offer users affordable whole-home and neighborhood security. At Ring, we are committed to making home and neighborhood security accessible and effective for everyone -- while working hard to bring communities together. Ring is an Amazon company. For more information, visit www.ring.com. With Ring, you’re always home.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
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