Com join the Amazon Kids Team in Seattle!

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 innovate 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
- You'll 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
- You'll work with your manager and team mates to clarify requirements, design solutions, and solve difficult software problems
- You'll identify appropriate tradeoffs and escalate when you realize that a problem is beyond your control
- You'll mentor your new teammates and help them learn to develop production software in line with Amazon's quality bar

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

About the team
Our team owns the content catalog and its associated metadata across all content types. We also own search functionality as well as device messaging notification. These services support the clients across all devices surfaces (tablet, FireTV, Echo etc.) for millions of customers. The content and metadata is used to power personalization and recommendation services as well as search and other customer facing features.