Software Development Engineer Appstore

The Appstore technology teams connect millions of customers to apps and content they love. We enable this on varied set of devices like Fire TV Fire Tablets Android devices Automotive devices. We delight customers through selection worldclass customer experience and value for their money. We continuously strive to make it easy for developers to provide these to customers.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to be part of the development of scalable software solutions and services for handling the Customer and Developer experience. Ideal candidate should be willing to work in designing scalable and lowlatency systems working across technologies.
Joining our team will give you endless opportunities to use your passion ingenuity experience and pragmatism to build a worldclass Appstore experience.

Our ideal candidate will have a deep wellrounded technical background in current software disciplines mastery of software fundamentals and be willing to effectively challenge technical system designs and drive engineering decisions to drive the right developer and customer experience and an eagerness to learn new and evolving technologies. To be successful youll need to have experience with Java or any other modern language experience of Service Architectures experience working with databases experience handling scale. 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 Hyderabad India and will have the chance to lead the product architecture and teambuilding effort.


Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for the architecture design and delivery of critical distributed systems influencing the team on the right technical direction making key technology decision coaching and developing engineers and improving the overall maintainability of these systems. You will need to drive innovations and think big to bring in step function changes from the current status quo.

A day in the life
You will need to engage with senior engineers to review key designs architecture.
You will review key customer and operational metrics look at system health.
You will problem solve complex ambiguous problems.
You will code critical and complex modules.
You influence senior leaders and propose architecture to support future needs.

Come join us in building one of the most disruptive digital businesses at the earths most customer centric company!


About the team
In Appstore We entertain and delight hundreds of millions of people across devices with a vast selection of relevant apps games and services by making it trivially easy for developers to deliver. Appstore team enables the customer and developer flywheel on devices by enabling developers to seamlessly launch and manage their apps/ inapp content on Amazon. It helps customers discover buy and engage with these apps on Fire TV Fire Tablets and mobile devices. The technologies we build on vary from device software to high scale services to efficient tools for developers.

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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