Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Web & Emerging Modalities, Prime Video
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
- You will be a confident full-stack engineer
- 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
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
What the job involves
- You will directly deliver innovative, exciting experiences on the web and other surfaces with emerging AI technologies to meet customers where they are
- You will work as part of one of our 2-pizza teams, launching and growing new initiatives for Amazon's global business. You will be a significant independent contributor, owning highly impactful business outcomes
- You will collaborate closely with Product Managers, Program Managers, UX Designers, Engineering partners, and Leadership across the company to deliver those outcomes
- You will regularly challenge the status quo, and implement high standards of operations on your team. You will mentor and grow the next generation of engineers, as well as pursue opportunities to grow your own skills and career
- You will own the end-to-end delivery of customer and platform features - working with full stack web technologies (TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, Sass), back-end APIs and webservers (Java, Scala), testing (Storybook, Playwright), and infrastructure (AWS, CDK)
- You will review code, design documents, and plan your work using standardised tools, and processes with your team. You will work with product, program, and UX owners to define, refine and iterate on prototypes
- Our team owns the customer experience of some of the major entry points on Prime Video for video discovery, we drive complex business problems, build global technology solutions to provide customized compelling content to customers in each country where we operate
- The team enables Prime Video customers to instantly discover, search, navigate, browse content, and manage preferences, primarily across website platforms using any modern web browser on any device anywhere in the world
- The website team is a highly diverse and inclusive group, with passion for building real world solutions, experimentation and innovation at the core of our initiatives
- We aim for keeping a self-sustainable process of improvement in our tech stack, moving fast for creating new functionalities and delivering for strategic projects across Prime Video
- We foster a culture of innovation and continuous growth, building a strong team and setting time for enjoying our work and having fun outside it
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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