Software Development Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Our mission is to enable digital reading across the world in every language. The Kindle for Developing countries team plays a key role in making this vision happen by providing the shopping experience that helps customers discover the next book to read. We are looking for a creative, deeply technical and customer-obsessed SDE to implement new technology solutions that define the future of digital shopping.

We are looking for a passionate, talented, and innovative SDE who enjoys solving difficult problems and delivering high-performance, highly-available, and extremely scalable systems. The SDE has an opportunity to solve the barriers using technology for digital reading in developing countries including (but not limited to) - low connectivity, power availability, remote/rural area reachability etc.,

Customers shop for Kindle books from a variety of surfaces including desktops/laptops, Kindle eInk devices, Fire Tablets and phones, from their mobile browser on their iOS phones and tablets to Android devices. We provide shopping experience for customer no matter where they are and what device they have. Each of these devices have different capabilities and form factors. We create services that provide consistent information while providing custom experience for the device the customer is using.

If you are a sharp software engineer with a creative flare, a solid software engineering and computer science foundation, and desire to be a leader in delivering the next generation technology, we want to talk with you. Joining our team provides the unique challenge and opportunity to develop cutting edge software that shapes the industry. The ideal candidate will draw upon exemplary analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, and an entrepreneurial spirit with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.

This role will have a profound impact on millions of readers. Come help us reinvent reading for books!