DESCRIPTION

Passionate about books and reading? Books have a long history at Amazon; books were our first retail product, we reinvented reading with Kindle, and today we enable reading across a multitude of surfaces and content types. The Books Content Demand team helps readers find books and authors through relevant content, search results and recommendations, and innovative shopping experiences. We set audacious goals and are looking for people who can help us transform the way we engage with readers and help them find their next book. As a Software Development Engineer, you will provide both strategic and tactical oversight to build the features and functionality required to have a best in class offering to our authors.
You will be able to show your passion for authors and disrupting the publishing world by building and delivering systems at Amazon scale. You will work on projects that require creative thinking and deep understanding of the problem space while collaborating on product definitions with product teams. You challenge yourself and others to come up with better solutions. You are a thought leader, but you don't just know how to solve the problem, you prove it by building the solution. Last but not the least; you have a high bar for code quality and passion for design and architecture.

We operate as a startup within Amazon, providing great flexibility in product and technology direction. We will face challenging and interesting problems and at times not know the best path forward. Backed with passionate leaders and a strong team culture, we’ll make hard decisions, understand why and change the world together. Come, join us and build the future!

Key job responsibilities

• You will solve ambiguous business problems and map them to elegant technical solutions
• You will use object-oriented concepts, algorithms and data structures to build systems at Amazon scale
• You will design, launch, and re-architect multi-tier systems with large amounts of data
• You will quickly adapt to fast-paced development environment with bias towards simple and extensible code

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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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