Software Dev Engineer-II, Publisher Tools

Software Dev Engineer-II, Publisher Tools

The Kindle Publishing Tools (PubTools) team owns the self‑service content creators tools. Our vision is to enable all content creators to prepare and publish their ideated work in a fast, easy, and low‑cost manner to Kindle to provide the widest selection of high‑quality books with unique Kindle features for our customers. We achieve this via our product portfolio: Kindle Create (KC), Kindle Previewer (KPR), Online Previewer (OPR) – which is integrated with KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) title setup workflow and tools like Kindle Comic Book Creator (KC2), Kindle Kids Book Creator (KKBC).

Part of the team, you will invent, design and develop end‑to‑end products to make book creation experience simpler and higher quality.

Key job responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced cross‑disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to customers.
• Design and implement system architecture and underlying components. Establish design principles, select design patterns, and instill best practices for software development across multiple teams.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, make trade‑offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
• Work in an agile, startup‑like environment to deliver high‑quality software.

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

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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