Senior Software Development Engineer, Kindle E-Reader

Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary reading device and one of the most innovative devices at Amazon.
Our Organization is looking for an inventive and technically skilled Software Development Engineer to join our diverse team at the forefront of delighting millions of readers around the world. We build the next generation reading experience. Our team works backwards from customers by understanding their needs to design and implement solutions that deliver an immersive reading experience across a wide variety of devices, genres, and formats.

We are looking for full-stack Software Development Engineers who enjoys building high quality software that touches millions of customers. Those who seek a challenge, are eager to learn, and want to make a impact on global customers should apply.

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will own adding capabilities as we unlock more features on Kindle E-reader family. Our goal is to make it fast, easy and low-cost for our internal application developers to build features and release them on our E-reader stack.
You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you'll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams across Amazon.
We will need to tackle problems that span a variety of domains: software, hardware, networks and distributed systems as well as automation.
You design and develop the critical components in E-reader that make the product a performant, secure and power optimized device.
Along the way you'll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.

• You are an expert in C/C++ as well as comfortable working in client and service side stack.

• Collaborate with experienced Amazonians to design, and bring innovative components in E-reader

• Architect and design a secure software that protects customer data stored on the devices.

• Identify what it means to keep the software stack up-to-date keeping an eye on advancements both in hardware as well as software.

A day in the life

In this role, you will be actively engaged in developing our E-reader software that are based on C/C++. You will be contacted by many Amazonian as they deploy their software on E-reader. You will also be the lead engineer for your team in guiding them both on design and best practices.

 Ship and review C++, ReactNative or Java for reading features on Kindle E-Reader, Kindle Apps on iOS/Android.
 Collaborate with peers, product owners, UX designers and partner tech teams on architecture and design of reading features.
 Adapt the customer experience for the next generation of Kindle E-Reader devices focusing on operational excellence, monitoring the team's code deployment pipelines and dashboards
 Root cause issues and propose solutions
 Train new team members on how E-Reader and Kindle Application software is constructed, how it operates, how secure it is, and how it fits into the bigger picture.

About the team
We own the design, architecture, and implementation of a surface to enable reading innovation across file formats and operating systems. Our software supports Kindle customers on all major mobile surfaces and Kindle devices. Our engineers enjoy working as a team and welcome the opportunity to lead whenever possible.

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

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

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