About this role

Amazon is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in Chennai, India. The posting calls out experience with Java, C#, Backend Development, Android and roughly 3+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Role: Software Engineer
Function: software engineering
Level: mid
Track: Individual contributor
Employment: Full-time
Location: Chennai, India
Experience: 3+ years
Education: Bachelor's degree
Department: Software Development
Posted: Jun 8, 2026

AI Summary

Mid-level software engineer designing and developing scalable web services for Amazon's Digital Catalog team, supporting Kindle, AppStore, MP3, and video platforms. Requires 3+ years professional software development experience with modern languages like Java/C++/C#, plus design/architecture expertise. Leadership and mentoring responsibilities included.

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Job description

from Amazon careers

Digital Catalog team owns services supporting publishing and purchase of Digital content, including Kindle EBooks, Amazon AppStore for Android, Amazon MP3, and Amazon Instant Video.
You will be joining a team working on scalable web services using cloud technologies. Your work will be highly visible to Amazon customers and internal stakeholders.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will provide technical leadership to other engineers in the team and also contribute to the design and development of high-scale web services and workflows. You will also influence the technical direction of other teams in the Digital Content Platform organization. We are solving some very interesting and complex problems in the next couple of years, and there is a great deal of opportunity for a creative technical leader to innovate in the space and drive product direction. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences and backend web services, strong technical skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, high creativity, and great analytical reasoning skills.

Key job responsibilities
1. The candidate will be responsible to analyze, design and develop the products for the DA Catalog team.
2. The candidate will have opportunity to lead, mentor the junior team members.
3. The candidate will be responsible for the routing on-call activities, reduce the Op-Ex goals, maintain the healthy pipeline.
4. The candidate will be responsible to deliver the product with right quality with minimal or zero defects.
5. The candidate will be responsible to test and deliver the product, do that automation if needed.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience

Preferred Qualifications

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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