ONLINE retail giant Amazon needs 200 new employees for its Kindle technological development team in Madrid.
Spain is now only the third country on earth with a centre for developing reading technology for Amazon, along with the USA and India.
The teams will be creating technology to allow customers to test-drive, buy and read their favourite books, articles and other text types.
Amazon currently has just over 270 employees at its Madrid and Barcelona technological centres, and since the company launched in Spain in 2011, has created 5,000 new permanent jobs and invested over €1.1 billion.
The software development centre in Madrid offers support to digital sales platforms across Europe and to Amazon Business, whilst the centre in Barcelona focuses on research into and development of machine learning, and other, similar activities.
Amazon's managing director for Spain and Italy, Mariangela Marseglia, says the company is 'very much looking forward to' seeing how ideas developed by people in Spain affect 'the manner in which customers read and access content in the rest of the world'.
The aim of the 200 new employees will be to ensure 'every book, in every language' is 'accessible to any reader anywhere in the world' and to 'help customers read more and get more out of reading'.
Interviewing will start shortly and applications are already being taken via the company's website, Amazon.es.
