We are looking for Software Development Engineer with passion to innovate on behalf of Japan e-book customers to easily discover e-books, besides making the purchase experience convenient, intuitive and seamless. We are part of world’s largest and oldest digital book store services and our charter includes building innovative experiences that will reduce transaction friction and increase conversion rates by understanding the options available to customer and then implementing them in a way that works build Japan first features that can be adapted to world-wide markets places and bring global features to Japan.
The role will challenge with unique opportunity to collaborate on cross service, design changes to propose new architecture and/or modify existing architecture, and drive the right technical trade-offs between short-term and long-term concerns. You will have to deal with significant complexity while building features due to changes necessary in various services/pages such as eBooks discovery, search, list, product detail page, payment services and so on. The complexity manifests further as those features will have to be scalable and work seamlessly on different surfaces like PC Web Browser, Mobile Web browser, Amazon Android application, Kindle Reader on Android & IOS, Kindle for IOS and Amazon’s Eink.

Key job responsibilities
Building solutions in JP Kindle store team offers you to develop your skills as full stack developer by allowing you to work in variety of technologies such as REST/RPC services, website frameworks, and variety of AWS technologies like NoSQL DBs, lambdas, and so on.
As a Software engineer you will have unique opportunity to work with Amazon’s best Principal engineers and SDE3 on other teams thus providing opportunities to influence software architecture and design of variety for systems. Your responsibility will also include also include growing/guiding junior engineers.