Software Development Engineer, Amazon Kids

Com 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 innovate 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!

Key job responsibilities
- Youll 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
- Youll work with your manager and team mates to clarify requirements design solutions and solve difficult software problems
- Youll identify appropriate tradeoffs and escalate when you realize that a problem is beyond your control
- Youll mentor your new teammates and help them learn to develop production software in line with Amazons quality bar

A day in the life
In this role youll leverage your experience as a Software Engineer to solve difficult technical problems. Youll invent design and build software that solves the challenges that kids and their parents face day-to-day. Youll work closely with your leadership and product management stakeholders to design simple solutions. Youll help to maintain our production software in the field and youll identify our pain points and drive your team to solve them. Youll help make your team better more efficient and a more enjoyable place to work.

About the team
Our team owns the content catalog and its associated metadata across all content types. We also own search functionality as well as device messaging notification. These services support the clients across all devices surfaces (tablet FireTV Echo etc.) for millions of customers. The content and metadata is used to power personalization and recommendation services as well as search and other customer facing features.

- 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

- 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
- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.