Software Development Engineer, Appstore Commerce
Amazon· Software Development
About this role
The Appstore technology teams connect millions of customers to apps and content they love. We enable this on varied set of devices like Fire TV and Fire Tablets devices. 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 scalable software solutions and services for handling the Developer Monetization experience. 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 drive the right developer and customer experience, and an eagerness to learn new and evolving technologies. To be successful you'll need to have experience with Java or any other modern language, experience of Service Architectures, experience working with databases, experience handling scale. You need a strong grasp of architecture and advanced engineering principles and design patterns. You must be a fast, efficient coder and make coding and design decision with multiple simultaneous dimensions in mind. You will be part of 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 distributed systems, influencing the team on the right technical direction, making key technology decision, 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, architecture.
You will review key customer and operational metrics, look at system health.
You will problem solve complex ambiguous problems.
You will code critical and complex modules.
You influence senior leaders and propose architecture to support future needs.
Come join us, in building one of the most disruptive digital businesses, at the earth's most customer centric company!
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”. 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 and Fire Tablets devices. The technologies we build on vary from device software, to high scale services, to efficient tools for developers.
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to be part of the development of scalable software solutions and services for handling the Developer Monetization experience. 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 drive the right developer and customer experience, and an eagerness to learn new and evolving technologies. To be successful you'll need to have experience with Java or any other modern language, experience of Service Architectures, experience working with databases, experience handling scale. You need a strong grasp of architecture and advanced engineering principles and design patterns. You must be a fast, efficient coder and make coding and design decision with multiple simultaneous dimensions in mind. You will be part of 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 distributed systems, influencing the team on the right technical direction, making key technology decision, 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, architecture.
You will review key customer and operational metrics, look at system health.
You will problem solve complex ambiguous problems.
You will code critical and complex modules.
You influence senior leaders and propose architecture to support future needs.
Come join us, in building one of the most disruptive digital businesses, at the earth's most customer centric company!
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”. 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 and Fire Tablets devices. The technologies we build on vary from device software, to high scale services, to efficient tools for developers.
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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Software Development Engineer, Appstore Commerce
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