Software Development Engineer
DESCRIPTION
Kindle has changed the way books are published, sold, and read across the globe. Independent authors are now able to publish and sell direct to readers through Kindle and print-on-demand offerings, enabling them to reach audiences never before available. Kindle readers are able to download any book in any language in sixty seconds. Come be a part of changing the way the world reads.
The Kindle Conversion team is responsible for fast, secure and scalable conversion of eBooks and personal documents across multiple file formats (EPUB, Doc/Docx, PDF, Html) to the Kindle compatible format. We enable a best-in-class reading experience for our customers by supporting conversion of rich styles across different file formats and bring more stronger foundations to delight our growing customers of different personas. We work across the diverse Kindle Technologies across teams to deliver the delighting experience for our customers on time. We look at optimizations for builders (engineers) in the software development lifecycle is and bring positive impact to large engineering community.
Software development engineers on the Kindle Conversion team are responsible for building a high performant, secure and low cost conversion system for diverse features in source content. You will closely work with stakeholders and Sr.engineers to understand the domain and rearchitect conversion system in order to be security compliant and highly performant. You will need to work with program managers, customer support agents to design and deliver customer facing features. You will need to be able to articulate technology choices and decisions to a diverse group and mentor junior engineers.
This role will have a profound impact on millions of readers and content creators across the world. Come help us reinvent reading!
Key job responsibilities
- As a member of the team, you will spend your time as a hands-on engineer and a technical leader who takes ownership of business/technical problem end to end. You will play a key role in defining the architecture for software using a wide range of technologies, programming languages and systems. You will be given the freedom to explore your own ideas with the reward of seeing your code raise the bar for millions of Amazon customers worldwide, including your own family and friends.
- You will interface with product manager & stakeholders to understand the business requirements. You will author detailed design covering process/data flow diagrams, key trade-offs, technology & cost considerations that you will review with your team’s SDEs/Sr. SDEs as well as impacted upstream/downstream interface SDEs/Sr. SDEs to incorporate feedback resulting in well thought out high quality designs.
- You will engage in design reviews within team as well as within org with aim of providing feedback to elevate the quality of designs. You will engage in various team ceremonies like code reviews, daily standup, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint retros, operational excellence hand-offs.
- You will actively engage in operational support for your team, and ensure that the root causes of operational issues are identified and resolved. You don’t settle for the status quo, and routinely identify and execute on opportunities to improve your team’s operations.
- We embrace the challenges of a fast paced market and evolving technologies, paving the way to high quality content available to readers from the first read. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be innovative, and positively impact millions of customers.
- Successful candidates for this position will have a background in Java, or C++. Equally important to these specific skills is a candidate's ability to multi-task, adapt quickly to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, gain new skills, create reliable & maintainable code, and find creative, scalable solutions to difficult problems.
- The ability to communicate clearly and concisely both written and orally is a key competency as is demonstrable skill as a self-starter. We are looking for candidates who are passionate about delivering consistently to our customers, particularly those who want to grow within a world-class engineering team.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ 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