Amazon Senior Software Development Engineer Kindle E-Reader 

India, Karnataka 

326930313

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will own adding capabilities as we unlock more features on Kindle E-reader family. Our goal is to make it fast, easy and low-cost for our internal application developers to build features and release them on our E-reader stack.
You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams across Amazon.
We will need to tackle problems that span a variety of domains: software, hardware, networks and distributed systems as well as automation.
You design and develop the critical components in E-reader that make the product a performant, secure and power optimized device.
Along the way you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.
• You are an expert in C/C++ as well as comfortable working in client and service side stack.
• Collaborate with experienced Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative components in E-reader
• Architect and design a secure software that protects customer data stored on the devices.
• Identify what it means to keep the software stack up-to-date keeping an eye on advancements both in hardware as well as software.
A day in the lifeIn this role, you will be actively engaged in developing our E-reader software that are based on C/C++. You will be contacted by many Amazonian as they deploy their software on E-reader. You will also be the lead engineer for your team in guiding them both on design and best practices. Ship and review C++, ReactNative or Java for reading features on Kindle E-Reader, Kindle Apps on iOS/Android.
 Root cause issues and propose solutions

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5+ 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