Monday, October 21, 2013

Software Development Engineer, Speech and Language Technologies





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The Amazon Digital and Mobile Products team has developed significant digital and mobile businesses including Amazon MP3, Amazon Video on Demand, IMDB, Amazon Mobile store, and the Kindle Fire. These businesses are powered by software that runs on a range of mobile platforms including iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile and WebOS. As a member of the team you will be responsible for leading the development and launch of core product features. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product.

The ideal candidate is clearly passionate about new opportunities and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.

Responsibilities

- Responsible for the development and maintenance of key system features

- Will work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.

- Will work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules.


- 2-5+ years experience building successful production software systems

- A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field)

- Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Java, JavaScript, C/C++, Objective C, Python) and open-source technologies (Linux, SQLite, OpenGL, Spring, Hibernate)

- Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.

- Development experience defining, developing and maintaining REST based interfaces

- Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts

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To learn more about the Kindle team at Amazon, visit www.amazon.com/careers/kindle and apply now.

Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.

Development experience defining, developing and maintaining REST based interfaces



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