Senior Application Engineer, Specialty Reading Support EngineeringAre you passionate about reading? Are you a fiction addict or do you love reading biographies and non-fiction? Do you consider yourself a learner for life? Do you like to transport yourself to another world when you read a great work of fiction? Do you love to read hardcopy of the books but at the same time like the convenience of carrying thousands of books on Kindle? Do you want to make reading on Kindle a more delightful experience?
Amazon Books mission statement is "We believe reading is essential for a healthy society; our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading." The Books team in Amazon is its oldest business, and Kindle has been leading the digital transformation of this centuries-old business.
KNFE team within Amazon Books is engaged in thinking and building features for Kindle which will make reading a delightful and differentiated experience. Our team owns key customer-facing features like X-Ray, Notes/Highlights, Popular highlights, Search inside a book, PhotoQuotes, and many more. We own these features end-to-end. We are responsible for the backend micro-service architecture, the ML that powers these features, as well as the seamless CX on iOS, Android, and E-reader.
Minimum Qualifications:4+ years of software development or technical support experienceExperience troubleshooting and debugging technical systemsExperience in UnixExperience scripting in modern programming languagesExperience in agile/scrum or related collaborative workflowB.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical fieldKnowledge of Java-based technologiesUnderstanding of XML/SOAP, web services, workflow modeling, web application developmentAbility to write intermediate level database queriesKnowledge of distributed applications/enterprise applicationsKnowledge of UNIX/Linux operating systemExperience analyzing and troubleshooting RESTful web API calls
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