About the position
Join the Amazon Kids Team in Seattle! Our team offers fun services for kids and their friends and family to safely connect and participate in joint activities that foster learning and connection while using technology that parents trust. You will work with the team to quickly and iteratively deliver high quality software features. Do you want to create and deliver innovative consumer software products for millions of customers around the world? We are growing and looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to join the Amazon Kids team. You will be responsible for owning and driving large-scale customer-facing features 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. Our goal is to create a revolutionary experience for parents and kids to enjoy on our Amazon family of devices. Working for Amazon Kids offers a creative, fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you will be at the center of Amazon innovation. Come help build the future of Amazon Devices and Services!
Responsibilities
- Take ownership for the long-term quality and success of the products that your team builds and drive continuous improvement in engineering and operational excellence.
- Work with your manager and team mates to clarify requirements, design solutions, and solve difficult software problems.
- Identify appropriate tradeoffs and escalate when you realize that a problem is beyond your control.
- Mentor your new teammates and help them learn to develop production software in line with Amazon's quality bar.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
Nice-to-haves
- 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.
- Familiarity with Java, Kotlin and Javascript.
- Experience operating and maintaining cloud-based services.
- Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical tradeoffs.
- Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
Benefits
- Equity and sign-on payments may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
