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Do you love to read? Do you follow authors? Do you want to build software to delight millions of authors and hundreds of millions of author followers on Amazon?
If so, the Amazon Author team will be the right place for you.
Customers join the Author Follow program by clicking on Follow button on various Amazon ingress points such as Author Detail page, Thank You Page, Start / End actions and Search.
In return, there are multiple benefits for following the author including customers receiving new release updates and authors / books recommendations based on which authors they follow.
Authors come to Amazon Author Central to create their author profile and claim their books. We also owns the Amazon Author detail page.
Author Page displays author biography, recommends similar authors, books written by the author and author updates. But this is only Day 1, we could do so much more to help our authors and followers!
The Amazon Author team is seeking a highly motivated Software Development Engineer to be part of a single thread engineering team focusing on Author end to end.
You will have the opportunity to build systems and programs that will impact millions of authors and author followers. The SDE will work with other engineers , SDMs, Product Managers, Technical Program Managers and UX designers to enable authors building an active author to follower community on Amazon that provides tons of unique benefits to followers that will build a demand fly-wheel for Amazon.
Customers join the Author Follow program by clicking on Follow button on various Amazon ingress points such as Author Detail page, Thank You Page, Start / End actions and Search.
In return, there are multiple benefits for following the author including customers receiving new release updates and authors / books recommendations based on which authors they follow.
Authors come to Amazon Author Central to create their author profile and claim their books. We also owns the Amazon Author detail page.
Author Page displays author biography, recommends similar authors, books written by the author and author updates. But this is only Day 1, we could do so much more to help our authors and followers!
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Dev Engineer II, you will
- Solve difficult engineering problems with elegant and practical code.
- Design and build web applications, backend services.
- Closely work with Product managers in scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
- Be a champion for the customer and ensure their needs always come first.
- Mentor junior engineer and provide technical guidance to your peers
About the team
As a team we believe in
- Diversity - We do not have all the answers and only diverse perspectives can build a more robust solution.
- Career growth - We identify the career gaps, and as we close these career gaps, we learn new skills and deliver on those.
This eventually leads to career growth.
Work-life balance - Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :
Madrid, M, ESP
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS :
- Experience (non-internship) in professional Software Development
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS :
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full Software Development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.
We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.
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