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Amazon Software Development Engineer SDEII L5 
India, Tamil Nadu 
742519452

12.06.2024
DESCRIPTION

The Creator Tools Team owns self-service content creator tools in addition to the WW Kindle content quality standard and related tech. Our vision is to enable all content creators to prepare and publish their ideated work in a fast, easy, and low-cost manner to Kindle. We help our customers get quality right from the first read as they provide the widest selection books with unique Kindle features for our readers. We builds tools for content creators (authors, publishers, conversion houses, and eBook developers) to create, format and validate content and guard the content quality by notifying issues to the authors/publishers. The flagship products team handles are: 1) Kindle Create - Tool for authors to create, format, edit and enrich with unique Kindle features, 2) Kindle Desktop Previewer - Desktop tool to validate and improve the quality of Kindle books. Both are C++ desktop applications (PC and MAC) built using QT. 3) OPR- An online previewing tool to validate and correct content before publishing. 4)Quasar - Author/Publisher feedback and communication dashboard. As part of the team, you will invent, design and develop end-to-end features to make book creation experience simpler and high quality. The ideal SDE-2 (L5) candidate is clearly passionate about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating solutions that are robust. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science. This person has thrived and succeeded in fast paced environment where learning new concepts quickly is a must. Key job responsibilities
- You will interface with product manager & stakeholders to understand the business requirements. You will author detailed design covering process/data flow diagrams, key trade-offs, technology & cost considerations that you will review with your team’s SDEs/Sr. SDEs as well as impacted upstream/downstream interface SDEs/Sr. SDEs to incorporate feedback resulting in well thought out high quality designs.
- You will engage in design reviews within team as well as within org with aim of providing feedback to elevate the quality of designs. You will engage in various team ceremonies like code reviews, daily standup, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint retros, operational excellence hand-offs.
- Successful candidates for this position will have a background in Java, C#, or C++. Equally important to these specific skills is a candidate's ability to multi-task, adapt quickly to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, gain new skills, create reliable & maintainable code, and find creative, scalable solutions to difficult problems. Chennai, TN, IND

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
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals like problem solving, data structures and algorithms Development and debugging experience in Mac or Windows, create reliable and maintainable code Design and architecture knowledge, and familiarity with object oriented design patterns Proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, C# and/or Java 4+ years of software development experience Communicate clearly and concisely in both written form and orally.