Software Development Engineer, JP Team Hachiko

Amazon

2 - 5 years

Chennai

Posted: 2/5/2025

Job Description

Description
We are looking for Software Development Engineer with passion to innovate on behalf of Japan e
- book customers to easily discover e
- books, besides making the purchase experience convenient, intuitive and seamless.
We are part of world’s largest and oldest digital book store services and our charter includes building innovative experiences that will reduce transaction friction and increase conversion rates by understanding the options available to customer and then implementing them in a way that works build Japan first features that can be adapted to world
- wide markets places and bring global features to Japan.
The role will challenge with unique opportunity to collaborate on cross service, design changes to propose new architecture and/or modify existing architecture, and drive the right technical trade
- offs between short
- term and long
- term concerns.
You will have to deal with significant complexity while building features due to changes necessary in various services/pages such as eBooks discovery, search, list, product detail page, payment services and so on.
The complexity manifests further as those features will have to be scalable and work seamlessly on different surfaces like PC Web Browser, Mobile Web browser, Amazon Android application, Kindle Reader on Android & IOS, Kindle for IOS and Amazon’s Eink.
Key job responsibilities
Building solutions in JP Kindle store team offers you to develop your skills as full stack developer by allowing you to work in variety of technologies such as REST/RPC services, website frameworks, and variety of AWS technologies like NoSQL DBs, lambdas, and so on.
As a Software engineer you will have unique opportunity to work with Amazon’s best Principal engineers and SDE3 on other teams thus providing opportunities to influence software architecture and design of variety for systems.
Your responsibility will also include also include growing/guiding junior engineers.

Basic Qualifications
- 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
- 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Knowledgeable in object
- oriented design patterns.

Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non
- technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how
- we
- hire/accommodations for more information.
If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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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