Amazon is looking for exceptional, motivated software engineers to work in the Kindle Reader organization. As a Software Engineer you will take an exciting and challenging role on a team that is innovating on the Reading experience on Kindle mobile devices and services for millions of Amazon customers. You will work with world-class engineers, business leaders, and other talented engineering teams while you design, architect, and code for Kindle Reader iOS, Android app and E-Reader software. You will join a team that is developing a platform on which many other Amazon partner teams innovate their reader experiences. As a software engineer, you will think big and drive architecture decisions Kindle Library, cross OS development, app UX experience and service integrations to deliver awesome reader experience. We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented software engineer who has experience building mission critical, high volume applications that customers love.
About the team
As a engineer you will have opportunity to work with:
- The foundational tech stack for syncing and storing structured annotations (i.e. text sticky notes, highlights, bookmarks).
- Sync CX features such as MRPR (most recent page read CX) and FPR (furthest page read).
- The core sync architecture driving our vision to be a federated, scalable, “plug and play” sync service for any Kindle and Books feature requiring sync.
Notetaking Sync: The effective back-end for handwritten notetaking (via Kindle Scribe), this team supports handwritten note sync and storage, data integrity, privacy/security for notetaking, and architectural improvements.
- 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
- 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
