Software Development Engineer, Fire Tablet

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, Fire Tablet in Chennai, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: aI is not part of the work.
Tools and skills the posting cites include agile, scrum and system design.
Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
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AI in this role

Design, develop, and maintain software applications and systems for Fire Tablet in an Agile/Scrum environment.

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We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented Software Engineers who has experience in building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications & services. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of high quality products used every day, by people you know.

Key job responsibilities
- Responsible for the development and maintenance of key system features

- Will work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.

- Will work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against critical schedules.

- Will establish architectural principles, select design patterns and then mentor team members on their appropriate application

Basic qualifications

- 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

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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How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, Fire Tablet at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Software Development Engineer, Fire Tablet is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in IN, TN, Chennai.
The job was posted on October 14, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Pay

Typical software engineer job: $167k

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