The Tablet Appstore team connects millions of customers to apps and content they love. We delight customers through selection, world-class customer experience, and value for their money. We continuously strive to make it easy for developers to provide these to customers.
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to be part of the development of Tablet Appstore Client for handling the app purchasing experience. The ideal candidate should be willing to work in designing scalable and low-latency systems, working across technologies. Joining our team will give you endless opportunities to use your passion, ingenuity, experience, and pragmatism to build a world-class Appstore experience.
Our ideal candidate will have a deep well-rounded technical background in current software disciplines, mastery of software fundamentals, and be willing to effectively challenge technical system designs and drive engineering decisions to enhance the developer and customer experience, along with an eagerness to learn new and evolving technologies. To be successful, youll need to have experience with Java or any other modern language, experience in Service Architectures, experience working with databases, and experience handling scale. You need a strong grasp of architecture, advanced engineering principles, and design patterns. You must be a fast, efficient coder who can make coding and design decisions with multiple simultaneous dimensions in mind. You will be part of the technical leadership team of Amazon Appstore development center in Chennai, India, and will have the chance to lead the product architecture and team-building effort.
Key Job Responsibilities
You will be responsible for the architecture, design, and delivery of critical Appstore client experience in Tablets, influencing the team on the right technical direction, making key technology decisions, coaching and developing engineers, and improving the overall maintainability of these systems. You will need to drive innovations and think big to bring in step-function changes from the current status quo.
A Day in the Life
You will need to engage with senior engineers to review key designs and architecture. You will review key customer and operational metrics, look at system health, problem-solve complex ambiguous problems, and code critical and complex modules. You will influence senior leaders and propose architecture to support future needs.
About the Team
In Appstore, “We entertain, and delight, hundreds of millions of people across devices with a vast selection of relevant apps, games, and services by making it trivially easy for developers to deliver”. The Appstore team enables the customer and developer flywheel on devices by enabling developers to seamlessly launch and manage their apps/in-app content on Amazon. It helps customers discover, buy, and engage with these apps on Fire TV, Fire Tablets, and mobile devices. The technologies we build on vary from device software to high-scale services to efficient tools for developers.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
1. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
1. 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
2. Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
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