Software Development Engineer, Amazon Kids
Amazon Kids brings together all types of content that kids and parents love, including books, games, educational apps, movies and TV shows. It provides peace of mind for parents with parental controls and a world of fun for kids to choose from thousands of the most popular titles and age-appropriate content. Here's more information: http://www.amazon.com/kids
Do you want to create and deliver innovative consumer products for millions of customers? We are looking for a talented Software Development Engineer with experience building and shipping innovative software to join the Amazon Kids team. Our goal is to create a revolutionary experience for parents and kids to enjoy on our Amazon family of devices.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer, you will be responsible for owning and driving customer facing features for the Kids experience on across multiple platform such as Fire TV and Tablet. You will own software systems from inception to delivery and beyond. You will have an opportunity to design, architect and build innovative consumer products used every day by people you know.
Come help build the future of Amazon devices and services for millions of customers around the world!
A day in the life
In this role, you'll leverage your experience as a Software Engineer to solve difficult technical problems. You'll invent, design and build software that solves the challenges that kids and their parents face day-to-day. You'll work closely with your leadership and product management stakeholders to design simple solutions. You'll help to maintain our production software in the field and you'll identify our pain points and drive your team to solve them. You'll help make your team better, more efficient, and a more enjoyable place to work.
About the team
The Amazon Kids team quickly gained critical acclaim and won the prestigious KAPi award for best hardware and service at CES 2013 and again in 2019. Our team offers a creative, fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you will be at the center of Amazon innovation.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ 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
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ 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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