Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Prime Tech Hub and Offline Marketing
The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
Desirable
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
What the job involves
- Amazon is looking for a talented and enthusiastic Software Development Engineer to join the Prime Tech Hub
- Software Development Engineers will be responsible for the design, development, delivery and support of large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications and tools
- This job requires you to hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks that will define your success
- You will be working closely with business partners, software development engineers, UI/UX designers and product managers to build new customer-facing experiences in a fast paced environment
- Architect, design and build large-scale digital marketing optimisation systems that power Amazon websites
- Own the delivery of end-to-end, full stack solutions
- Make sound engineering decisions and improve our software development practices
- Build analytics platforms to process large volumes of traffic data, trends in marketing signals, and other key metrics
- Build experimentation frameworks to drive continuous testing new marketing experiences
- Contribute to the team’s technical vision and roadmap
- A day in the life:
- A SDE2 in this role is in charge of end-to-end project ownership and developing full-stack solutions ranging from building scalable softwares to process large volumes of data, building big-data platforms to process customer level data and to capture marketing signals for analytics and measurement
- They work with cross-functional teams containing UI/UX designers, product/marketing managers to build new customer experiences
- They contribute to the team’s technical vision and roadmap by actively contributing to design and code reviews
- The role is expected to implement best practices for code quality, testing and deployment in an AWS environment (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, ECS etc)
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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