Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Posted On

June 19, 2025

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Software Development

Apply By

Oct. 21, 2025

Job Description

Amazon is looking for exceptional, motivated software engineers to work in the Kindle Reader organization. As a Software Engineer you will take an exciting and challenging role on a team that is innovating on the Reading experience on Kindle mobile devices and services for millions of Amazon customers. You will work with world-class engineers, business leaders, and other talented engineering teams while you design, architect, and code for Kindle Reader iOS, Android app and E-Reader software. You will join a team that is developing a platform on which many other Amazon partner teams innovate their reader experiences. As a software engineer, you will think big and drive architecture decisions Kindle Library, cross OS development, app UX experience and service integrations to deliver awesome reader experience. We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented software engineer who has experience building mission critical, high volume applications that customers love.

By submitting your application here, you can apply once to be considered for multiple Software Engineer openings across various Amazon teams. If you are successful in passing through the initial application review and assessment, you will be asked to submit your career and personal preferences so that our dedicated recruiters can match you to the right role based on these preferences.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner

About the team
As a engineer you will have opportunity to work with:

- The foundational tech stack for syncing and storing structured annotations (i.e. text sticky notes, highlights, bookmarks).
- Sync CX features such as MRPR (most recent page read CX) and FPR (furthest page read).
- The core sync architecture driving our vision to be a federated, scalable, “plug and play” sync service for any Kindle and Books feature requiring sync.
Notetaking Sync: The effective back-end for handwritten notetaking (via Kindle Scribe), this team supports handwritten note sync and storage, data integrity, privacy/security for notetaking, and architectural improvements.- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

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