Overview
Kindle has changed the way books are published, sold, and read across the globe. Independent authors are now able to publish and sell directly to readers through Kindle and print-on-demand offerings, enabling them to reach audiences never before available. Kindle readers can download any book in any language in sixty seconds. Come be a part of changing the way the world reads.
The Kindle Conversion team is responsible for fast, secure, and scalable conversion of eBooks and personal documents across multiple file formats (EPUB, DOC/CMD, PDF, HTML) to the Kindle-compatible format. We enable a best-in-class reading experience for our customers by supporting conversion of rich styles across different file systems and by providing stronger foundations to delight customers of different personas. We work across diverse Kindle Technologies teams to deliver a delightful experience on time. We look at optimizations for builders (engineers) in the software development lifecycle and bring positive impact to a large engineering community.
Key Responsibilities
As a member of the team, you will spend your time as a hands-on engineer and a technical leader who takes ownership of business-and-technical problems end to end. You will play a key role in defining the architecture for software using a wide range of technologies, programming languages and systems. You will be given the freedom to explore your own ideas, with the reward of seeing your code raise the bar for millions of Amazon customers worldwide.
You will interface with product managers & stakeholders to understand business requirements. You will author detailed designs covering process/data-flow diagrams, key trade-offs, technology & cost considerations that you will review with the team's SDEs/Sr.-SDEs and impacted upstream/downstream interface SDEs/Sr.-SDEs to incorporate feedback, resulting in well-thought-out, high-quality designs.
You will engage in design reviews within the team and within the organization with the aim of providing feedback to elevate design quality. You will engage in numerous team ceremonies such as code reviews, daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint retros, and operational excellence hand-offs.
You will actively engage in operational support for your team and ensure that root causes of operational issues are identified and resolved. You don't settle for the status quo, and routinely identify and execute opportunities to improve the team's operations.
We embrace the challenges of a fast-paced market and evolving technologies, paving the way to high-quality content for readers from the very first read. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be innovative, and positively impact millions of customers.
Successful candidates will have a background in Java or C++. Equally important are the ability to multi-task, adapt quickly to new development environments, learn new systems, and create reliable, maintainable code that solves difficult problems at scale.
The ability to communicate clearly and concisely both in writing and verbally is a key competency, as is demonstrable skill as a self-starter. We're looking for candidates who are passionate about consistently delivering to our customers, especially those who want to grow within a world-class engineering team.
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
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