SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER, AMAZON KIDS, MADRID

Software Development Engineer, Amazon Kids
Come join the Amazon Kids team in Madrid!

Our team offers fun services for kids and their friends and family to safely connect and participate in joint activities that foster learning and connection while using technology that parents trust. You will work with the team to quickly and iteratively deliver high-quality software features.

Do you want to create and deliver innovative consumer software products for millions of customers around the world? We are growing and looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to join the Amazon Kids team. You will be responsible for owning and driving large-scale customer-facing features from inception to delivery and beyond. You will have an opportunity to design, architect, and build innovative consumer products used every day by people you know.

Our goal is to create a revolutionary experience for parents and kids to enjoy on our Amazon family of devices. Working for Amazon Kids offers a creative, fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you will be at the center of Amazon innovation. Come help build the future of Amazon devices and services!

Key job responsibilities
- Youll take ownership for the long-term quality and success of the products that your team builds and drive continuous improvement in engineering and operational excellence.
- Youll work with your manager and team mates to clarify requirements, design solutions, and solve difficult software problems.
- Youll identify appropriate tradeoffs and escalate when you realize that a problem is beyond your control.
- Youll mentor your new teammates and help them learn to develop production software in line with Amazons quality bar.

A day in the life
In this role, youll leverage your experience as a Software Engineer to solve difficult technical problems. Youll invent, design, and build software that solves the challenges that kids and their parents face day-to-day. Youll work closely with your leadership and product management stakeholders to design simple solutions. Youll help to maintain our production software in the field and youll identify our pain points and drive your team to solve them. Youll help make your team better, more efficient, and a more enjoyable place to work.

About the team
Amazon Kids+ brings together all types of content that kids and parents love, including books, Audible books, movies, TV shows, educational apps, and games, plus a child-friendly Alexa experience. We provide peace of mind for parents with award-winning parental controls and monitoring through Parent Dashboard, and a world of fun for kids where they can choose from thousands of the most popular titles and age-appropriate content, all hand-selected by the Amazon Kids team. Amazon Kids is available on Fire Tablets, Fire TV, Kindle e-readers, compatible Android and iOS mobile devices, and compatible Alexa devices.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence.
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
- Full-stack developer with experience in web technologies.
- Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Experience operating and maintaining cloud-based services.
- Typescript experience. Polyglot programmer preferred.
- Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.
- Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.

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