Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

The team is responsible for building Consumer experiences for the Appstore in Fire OS and Android OS. The team uses architectural and design principles to develop software platforms that handle the scale and latency constraints. It has also developed excellent expertise in Android internals and is building innovative mobile experience, automation technologies, which help providing superb consumer experience.
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to be part of the development of scalable software solutions and services for handling the consumer experience. Ideal candidate should be willing to 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 for tablets such as the Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones. To be successful you'll need to have lots of experience with C++ or Java, customer focus, experience of SOA, experience working with databases, experience handling scale, and excellent communication skills. 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.

Come join us, in building one of the most disruptive digital businesses, at the earth's most customer centric company!

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 4+ years relevant work experience
- 2+ years professional experience in software development
- Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
- Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
- Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, C#, Java, or PERL