We are looking for Software Development Engineer with passion to innovate on behalf of eBook customers to easily purchase eBooks and Kindle subscriptions. We are part of digital book store service and our charter includes enabling Amazon customers to acquire eBook from wherever they discover. We build innovative experiences that reduces transaction friction and increase extensible solution for digital purchase experience that can be leveraged across multiple digital businesses.
The role will challenge with unique opportunity to collaborate on cross service, design changes to propose new architecture and/or modify existing architecture, and drive the right technical trade-offs between short-term and long-term concerns. You will have to deal with significant complexity while building features, due to changes necessary in various services/pages such as eBooks purchase experience, pre-purchase and checkout experience for digital products and so on. The complexity manifests further as those features will have to be scalable and work seamlessly for multiple digital businesses and on different surfaces like PC Web Browser, Mobile Web browser, Amazon Android application, Free Kindle reading app on iOS and Android and Amazon’s E-reader.
Key job responsibilities
· Ability to design and code right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
· Drive best practices and engineering excellence.
· Work with other team members to develop the architecture and design of new and current systems.
· Work in an agile environment to deliver high quality software.- Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl
- Candidates pursuing Bachelors/ Masters in Computer Science or Engineering or related field.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
- Possess an extremely sound understanding of areas in the basic areas of Computer Science such as Algorithms, Data Structures, Object Oriented Design, Databases.
- Be able to write Amazon quality code in an object oriented language - preferably in C/C++/Java in a Linux environment.
- Candidate must have good written and oral communication skills, be a fast learner and have the ability to adapt quickly to a fast-paced development environment.- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills (C/C++ and/or Java preferably on a UNIX or Linux platform) Knowledge of Perl or other scripting languages a plus Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases Experience in optimization mathematics (linear programming, nonlinear optimization) Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly Previous technical internship(s) preferred
- Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit
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Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit
https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
