Software Support Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon's Digital Platform team develops innovative new products and services like the Kindle. The digital platform team creates the backbone for supporting customers' digital content and ownership information.

We are looking for software engineers who are passionate about the customer experience and the concept of "making customers' lives easy." You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used every day, by millions of customers.

We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume services that customers love.

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.
Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
Development experience defining, developing and maintaining REST based interfaces is a plus.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field)
· Experience with 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 with backend server programming.