Senior Application Engineer, Specialty Reading Support Engineering
Are you passionate about reading? Are you a fiction addict or do you love reading biographies and non-fiction? Do you consider yourself a learner for life? Do you like to transport yourself to another world when you read a great work of fiction? Do you love to read hardcopy of the books but at the same time like the convenience of carrying thousands of books on Kindle? Do you want to make reading on Kindle a more delightful experience?
Amazon Books' mission statement is "We believe reading is essential for a healthy society; our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading." The Books team in Amazon is its oldest business, and Kindle has been leading the digital transformation of this centuries-old business.
The KNFE team within Amazon Books is engaged in thinking and building features for Kindle that will make reading a delightful and differentiated experience. Our team owns key customer-facing features like X-Ray, Notes/Highlights, Popular Highlights, Search inside a book, PhotoQuotes, and many more. We own these features end-to-end. We are responsible for the backend micro-service architecture, the ML that powers these features, as well as the seamless CX on iOS, Android, and E-reader.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of software development or 4+ years of technical support experience
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- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Experience in Unix
- Experience scripting in modern programming languages
- Experience in agile/scrum or related collaborative workflow
- B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Knowledge of Java-based technologies
- Understanding of XML/SOAP, web services, workflow modeling, web application development
- Ability to write intermediate level database queries
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of distributed applications/enterprise applications
- Knowledge of UNIX/Linux operating systems
- Experience analyzing and troubleshooting RESTful web API calls
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