Senior Application Engineer, Specialty Reading Support Engineering

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Full time
Location: London
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Job offered by: Amazon
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Category: IT & Technology
Senior Application Engineer, Specialty Reading Support Engineering

Are you passionate about reading? Are you a fiction addict or do you love reading biographies and non-fiction? Do you consider yourself a learner for life? Do you like to transport yourself to another world when you read a great work of fiction? Do you love to read hardcopy books but at the same time enjoy the convenience of carrying thousands of books on Kindle? Do you want to make reading on Kindle a more delightful experience? Amazon Books' mission statement is:

"We believe reading is essential for a healthy society; our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading."

The Books team at Amazon is its oldest business, and Kindle has been leading the digital transformation of this centuries-old business. The KNFE team within Amazon Books is engaged in thinking and building features for Kindle that will make reading a delightful and differentiated experience. Our team owns key customer-facing features like X-Ray, Notes/Highlights, Popular Highlights, Search Inside a Book, PhotoQuotes, and many more. We own these features end-to-end, responsible for the backend micro-service architecture, the ML that powers these features, as well as the seamless CX on iOS, Android, and E-reader. Minimum Qualifications:

4+ years of software development or technical support experience Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems Experience in Unix Experience scripting in modern programming languages Experience in agile/scrum or related collaborative workflow B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field Knowledge of Java-based technologies Understanding of XML/SOAP, web services, workflow modeling, web application development Ability to write intermediate-level database queries Knowledge of distributed applications/enterprise applications Knowledge of UNIX/Linux operating system Experience analyzing and troubleshooting RESTful web API calls

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