Software Development Engineer, Kids+ Tablet Engineering

Do you want to create and deliver innovative 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!

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

In this role, you will 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 trade‑offs and escalates 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.

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 maintain our production software in the field and identify pain points, driving your team to solve them.

You’ll help make your team better, more efficient, and a more enjoyable place to work.

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.

• 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 modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object‑oriented design
• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor’s…