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DESCRIPTION The team is responsible for building Consumer experiences for the Appstore in Fire OS and Android OS. The team uses architectural and design principles to develop software platforms that handle the scale and latency constraints. It has also developed excellent expertise in Android internals and is building innovative mobile experience, automation technologies, which help providing superb consumer experience. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to be part of the development of scalable software solutions and services for handling the consumer experience. Ideal candidate should be willing to to work in designing scalable and low-latency systems, working across technologies. Joining our team will give you endless opportunities to use your passion, ingenuity, experience, and pragmatism to build a world-class Appstore experience for tablets such as the Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones. To be successful you\'ll need to have lots of experience with C++ or Java, Web Development, customer focus, experience of SOA, experience working with databases, experience handling scale, and excellent communication skills. You need a strong grasp of architecture and advanced engineering principles and design patterns. You must be a fast, efficient coder and make coding and design decision with multiple simultaneous dimensions in mind. You will be part of technical leadership team of Amazon Appstore development center in Chennai, India and will have the chance to lead the product architecture and team-building effort. Come join us, in building one of the most disruptive digital businesses, at the earth\'s most customer centric company! Key job responsibilities You will be responsible for the architecture, design, and delivery of critical distributed systems, influencing the team on the right technical direction, making key technology decision, coaching and developing engineers, and improving the overall maintainability of these systems. You will need to drive innovations and think big to bring in step function changes from the current status quo. A day in the life You will need to engage with senior engineers to review key designs, architecture. You will review key customer and operational metrics, look at system health. You will problem solve complex ambiguous problems. You will code critical and complex modules. You influence senior leaders and propose architecture to support future needs. Come join us, in building one of the most disruptive digital businesses, at the earth\'s most customer centric company! About the team In Appstore, \'We entertain, and delight, hundreds of millions of people across devices with a vast selection of relevant apps, games, and services by making it trivially easy for developers to deliver\'. Appstore team enables the customer and developer flywheel on devices by enabling developers to seamlessly launch and manage their apps/ in-app content on Amazon. It helps customers discover, buy and engage with these apps on Fire TV, Fire Tablets and mobile devices. The technologies we build on vary from device software, to high scale services, to efficient tools for developers. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Chennai, TN, IND 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 - Experience programming with at least one software programming language 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

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