Software Development Engineer, Books

Do you love books and reading? Do you want to help us engineer and deliver great new experiences for books? Our team’s mission is to become the preferred destination for organizations and consumers, of any size or industry, to procure and distribute books of any format for their readership community.

As a member of the team, you will have the opportunity to play a key role in building brand new software products and features from the ground up. You will design and deliver products built with modern full-stack technologies, programming languages, and systems. As your team develops scalable, distributed systems and performant front end clients, you will get to work with state of the art and highly-transferable technologies such as AWS and React.

We need you to help us invent and simplify procurement and distribution and connect our customers with both physical and digital formats. Your responsibilities will include all aspects of software development. You'll have the freedom and encouragement to explore your own ideas, and the reward of seeing your contributions benefit customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities
- You are a significant and autonomous contributor.
- You solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
- You work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant.
- You consider the legacy of the code you produce and write code that a Software Developer unfamiliar with the system can understand.
- You create flexible software without over-engineering.
- You make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies.
- You work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders, and peers.
- You help balance customer requirements with team requirements.
- You help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and ticket/metric/COE reviews.
- You take on projects and make software enhancements that improve team software and processes.
- You work to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain than when you found it.
- You train new team-mates on how your team’s software is constructed, how it operates, how secure it is, and how it fits into the bigger picture.
- You help recruit and interview for your team, and you mentor and help others.


A day in the life
- You’ll learn something new almost every day as you work with your teammates and colleagues to solve problems for--and delight--our customers.
- Design, develop and maintain at scale a variety of stacks that includes front end components, Kotlin and Java backend services and AWS deployed infrastructure.
- Interact with other teams to collaborate and disambiguate the tasks we face on our day to day challenges

About the team
We are an inclusive team that values openness and support for each other