Software Development Engineer II, Appstore

Do you want to help fellow developers (App developers) to innovate and serve millions of customers ? Do you enjoy working on scalable services, SDKs, tools, and learning systems? We welcome you to come and innovate with Amazon Appstore Developer Experience and Selection team !

The Developer Experience team develops products, services, SDKs, tools for third party mobile app developers to manage their apps on Amazon Appstore as well as build systems to curate catalog of hundreds of thousands of mobile apps to enable them on FTV and Fire Tablet store.

As a Developer, you will:

Help drive the architecture and technology choices that enable a world-class experience for our developers

Utilize various metrics sources to deliver rapid iterations of software features

Solve difficult problems with elegant and practical code

Raise the bar on quality, consistency, maintainability, efficiency, security and all the other things that make great software

Be responsible for designing, developing and deploying medium to large sized projects

Help define engineering best practices

Be a champion for the user: Insist on the highest standards, create functional and engaging features, and ensure their needs always come first.


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.

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. - 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