Kindle has changed the way books are published, sold, and read across the globe. Independent authors are now able to publish and sell direct to readers through Kindle and print-on-demand offerings, enabling them to reach audiences never before available. Kindle readers are able to download any book in any language in sixty seconds. Come be a part of changing the way the world reads.
The Kindle Conversion team is responsible for fast, secure and scalable conversion of eBooks and personal documents across multiple file formats (EPUB, Doc/Docx, PDF, Html) to the Kindle compatible format. We enable a best-in-class reading experience for our customers by supporting conversion of rich styles across different file formats and bring stronger foundations to delight our growing customers of different personas. We work across the diverse Kindle Technologies across teams to deliver a delightful experience for our customers on time. We look at optimizations for builders (engineers) in the software development lifecycle and bring positive impact to the large engineering community.
Software development engineers on the Kindle Conversion team are responsible for building a high-performance, secure, and low-cost conversion system for diverse features in source content. You will closely work with stakeholders and senior engineers to understand the domain and rearchitect the conversion system to be security compliant and highly performant. You will need to work with program managers and customer support agents to design and deliver customer-facing features. You will need to be able to articulate technology choices and decisions to a diverse group and mentor junior engineers.
This role will have a profound impact on millions of readers and content creators across the world. Come help us reinvent reading!
Key Job ResponsibilitiesAs a member of the team, you will spend your time as a hands-on engineer and a technical leader who takes ownership of business/technical problems end to end. You will play a key role in defining the architecture for software using a wide range of technologies, programming languages, and systems. You will interface with product managers and stakeholders to understand the business requirements. You will author detailed design covering process/data flow diagrams, key trade-offs, technology, and 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 the team as well as within the organization with the 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, and sprint retrospectives. You will actively engage in operational support for your team and ensure that the root causes of operational issues are identified and resolved. You don't settle for the status quo, and routinely identify and execute on opportunities to improve your team's operations. We embrace the challenges of a fast-paced market and evolving technologies, paving the way to high-quality content available to readers from the first read. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be innovative, and positively impact millions of customers. Successful candidates for this position will have a background in Java 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. The ability to communicate clearly and concisely both written and orally is a key competency as is demonstrable skill as a self-starter. We are looking for candidates who are passionate about delivering consistently to our customers, particularly those who want to grow within a world-class engineering team. Minimum Qualifications3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experienceExperience programming with at least one software programming language3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experienceBachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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