Software Development Engineer 1
Amazon
Software Development Engineer
We are looking for a software development engineer with a passion to innovate on behalf of eBook customers to easily purchase eBooks and Kindle subscriptions. We are part of a digital book store service and our charter includes enabling Amazon customers to acquire eBooks from wherever they discover. We build innovative experiences that reduce transaction friction and increase an extensible solution for the digital purchase experience that can be leveraged across multiple digital businesses.
The role will challenge with a 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.