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Description

Are you passionate about reading ? Are you a fiction addict or do you love reading biographys ? Do you consider yourself a learner for life ? ? Do you love to read hardcopy of the books but at the same time like the convenience of carry 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." Books team in Amazon is its oldest business and Kindle has been the leading the digital transformation of this centuries old business.

KNFE team within Amazon books engaged on thinking and building features for Kindle which will make reading a delightful and differentiated experiences. Our team owns key customer facing features like X-Ray, Popular highlights, Search inside a book, PhotoQuotes and many more. We own these features end-to-end. We are responsible for the backend miro-service architecture, the ML that powers these features as well as the seamless CX on iOS, Android and Ereader.

In 2024 we have an exciting roadmap and will do significant work on adding new supplementary content to augment the book reading experience. While we work on managing exist tech-stack, we will also develop new ML pipelines which are being available due to development in LLM.

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Dev Engineer II, you will be

• Solve difficult engineering problems with elegant and practical code.

• Design and build software for mobile, front end clients and server systems.

• Closely working with Product managers in scoping requirements through actual launch of the project

• Help define engineering best practices and providing technical mentorship to other members of the engineering team.

• Be a champion for the customer and ensuring their needs always come first.

• Mentor junior engineer and provide technical guidance to your peers

About the team

As a team we believe in

• Diversity - We do not have all the answers and only diversity perspective can build a more robust solution.

• Inclusion - We want to include the voice of the less spoken into our product. The inclusion should include our customers, our authors, our publishers, our employees and our community

• Work-life - Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here.

• Career growth - We identify the career gaps. As we close these career gaps, we learn new skills and deliver on those. This eventually leads to our career growth.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.