Senior Application Engineer, Specialty Reading Support Engineering
Amazon
5 - 10 years
Chennai
Posted: 11/19/2024
Job Description
Are 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 carry 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." Books team in Amazon is its oldest business and Kindle has been the leading the digital transformation of this centuries old business.
KNFE team within Amazon books is engaged on 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.
Basic Qualifications
- 4+ years of software development, or 4+ years of technical support experience
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Experience in Unix
- Experience scripting in modern program languages
- Experience in agile/scrum or related collaborative workflow
- B.S.
in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field
- Knowledge of Java based technologies
- Understanding of XML/SOAP, web services, workflow modeling, web application development
- Ability to write intermediate level database queries
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of distributed applications/enterprise applications
- Knowledge of UNIX/Linux operating system
- Experience analyzing and troubleshooting RESTful web API calls
About Company
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Initially focused on selling books online, it quickly expanded into a broad range of products and services, including electronics, cloud computing (via Amazon Web Services), streaming, and artificial intelligence. Amazon has revolutionized online shopping with fast delivery, personalized recommendations, and a subscription service called Amazon Prime. It is one of the world's largest and most valuable companies, with a significant impact on retail, technology, and logistics.
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