Highlights
In this role, you will you build mobile software for kids that allows them to access and enjoy the Amazon Kids+ subscription on their tablet: You will own long-term quality and success of the products that your team builds and drive continuous improvement in engineering and operational excellence. Amazon Kids+ helps all kids safely learn, play, and communicate through content that kids and parents love including books, Audible books, movies, TV shows, educational apps and games, music, skills, and more.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Seattle, WA |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://Amazon.com/militaryroles |
Description
Do you want to create and deliver innovate consumer software products for millions of customers around the world? If so, we are looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to join the Amazon Kids+ Tablet Engineering team. We deliver exclusive magical, connected features that work across a family's collection of Amazon devices. Members of this team specifically help kids and their parents maximize the value of their Amazon Kids+ subscription to create, play, and learn on their Fire Kids Tablets.
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. You will be responsible for driving customer-facing features from inception to delivery using the latest Android Mobile development tools.
Come help build the future of Amazon Devices and Services!
About Amazon Kids+
Amazon Kids+ helps all kids safely learn, play, and communicate through content that kids and parents love including books, Audible books, movies, TV shows, educational apps and games, music, skills, and more. We provide peace of mind for parents with parental controls and a world of fun for kids to choose from thousands of the most popular titles and age-appropriate content. Kids+ is available as a child-friendly experience on Fire Tablets, Fire TV, Kindle e-readers, and Alexa devices. We have gained critical acclaim and won the prestigious KAPi (Kids at Play Interactive) award for best hardware and service at CES 2013 and 2019. Learn more at http://www.amazon.com/kids.
Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will you build mobile software for kids that allows them to access and enjoy the Amazon Kids+ subscription on their tablet:
- You will own long-term quality and success of the products that your team builds and drive continuous improvement in engineering and operational excellence
- You will work with your manager and teammates to clarify requirements, design solutions, and solve difficult software problems
- You will identify appropriate tradeoffs and escalate when you realize that a problem is beyond your control
- You will mentor your new teammates and help them learn to develop production software that meets Amazon"s quality bar
A day in the life
As an engineer on the Amazon Kids+ Tablet Engineering team, you will leverage your experience as a software engineer to solve difficult technical problems and deliver compelling features to customers. You"ll invent, design and build software that solves day-to-day challenges that kids and their parents face. 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
The Amazon Kids+ Tablet Engineering team helps kids and their parents maximize the value of their Amazon Kids+ subscription to create, play, and learn on their Fire Kids Tablets and other Amazon devices. We are customer obsessed, mission-driven, and collaborative in everything we do. Our goal is to raise the bar with every delivery so that we can maintain the hard-earned trust of parents and their children.
About Company
At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
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