Software Development Engineer, Amazon
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- 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
- In this role you would be expected to have responsibility for the full technical stack our team owns and operates
- Create, enhance and improve new and existing capabilities for our dependent teams
- Deliver productivity improvements on existing and new solutions
- Operate at the 'full-stack' level across our owned tools, services and solutions, including identifying issues and bottlenecks and leading initiatives to improve them
- Improve common utility packages
- Use open-source and internal software to improve your team’s efficiency and quality
- Take part in our team’s on-call, which has a very low ticket load
- Attend/run a daily plan session to discuss yours/your teams current goal(s)
- Get involved in some pair or mob programming, developing your solution, raising PRs to get automated and peer feedback
- Deploy your changes to production, keeping business stakeholders up to date
- See your work go live across Amazon, exciting customers across the globe
- As a member of our team you'll be responsible for supporting the paved roads our users tread, whilst having one eye on future needs. We use everything from automation to GenAI to develop and enhance capabilities, productivity and reporting that enables teams now and in the future to do their best work
Salary benchmarks
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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