Software Development Engineer, Search Inside the Book

Amazon.com hires people from all types of backgrounds, into positions based all over the world. We recruit the best and brightest. Why Join Amazon.com? At Amazon, we believe that every day is still Day One. A day to take a first step. A day to look forward to new challenges. And today is that day for you. It's your day to be a part of something great. Your day to make your ideas come to life. And your day to join a company that redefines itself every day. That's the energy and excitement behind Amazon. Software Development Engineer, Search Inside the Book It’s inevitable — knowledge currently constrained by physical book formats is migrating online and the online reading sector is exploding with innovation including blogs, eBooks and digital book search.  Amazon’s Digital Text team has led this shift since its inception with award-winning products such as Search Inside the Book, Amazon Shorts and Amazon Upgrade.  If you think you’ll thrive in an environment where your job is to define and implement the future of reading for millions of consumers, join us! You can check out some of our current products below.  These products touch millions of consumers daily but we’ve only scratched the surface…  Search Inside the Book- Visit the Search Inside the Book overview page: http://www.amazon.com/b?node=10197021- Read what Wired magazine wrote about Search Inside: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/amazon.html- Look on Amazon.com for books that display the Search Inside! logo. Amazon Upgrade- Visit the Amazon Upgrade store: http://www.amazon.com/upgrade  Amazon Shorts- Visit the Amazon Shorts store: http://www.amazon.com/shorts Amazon's Digital Text team is looking for a talented SDE to create innovative new functionality for a world class technology company. You will be inspired by making changes that are measurable and that make an impact to Amazon's customers. Seeing the positive results of your work will give you the satisfaction that your talent deserves. You will architect, design, build and deliver large-scale, highly-distributed services and systems in a team environment. You will own major deliverables and all aspects of the development cycle: scoping, design, implementation, testing. etc. You will get a chance to exercise your judgment in determining and recommending the best designs based on business objectives, time lines and resource constraints. Successful candidates for this position will have a strong background in Java or C++. You will also work with Ruby, Perl and SQL. Experience working with large scale applications is a plus. Equally important are the candidate's abilities to multi-task, quickly adapt to new development environments, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems. The ability to communicate clearly and concisely (both written and orally) is a key competency as is being a self-starter. A BS/MS in computer science or a relevant area is required.