Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Whole Foods Market Engineering Services
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
- The Challenge: Whole Foods Market Engineering Services, WFMES, is looking for engineers who are passionate and innovative Software Development Engineers that have a heart for Nourishing People and the Planet to join our Engineering Services team
- Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment
- You are passionate about defining and creating brand new products and services that will radically improve customer experiences in key strategic areas
- You are able to translate business objectives into technical solutions understanding how it will impact and align with overall strategy
- You love to explore unknown territory and invent simple, beautiful solutions to complex business and usability problems, sometimes with no clear precedent in today’s world
- You are highly collaborative, with a proven record of working closely with your team to influence outcomes and propose well-informed new directions
- You have great interpersonal communication skills. You’re good at finding new and better ways of communicating and sharing your work, and are always fine-tuning your work for impact and transparency
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- This team is tackling some of our most complex and challenging projects and will deliver innovative technical solutions to advance the retail grocery industry
- As a WFMES Software Development Engineer, you will help tackle a diverse landscape of technical challenges
- We are an early-stage initiative, and you will play an active role in translating business requirements into concrete systems and prototyping concepts in partnership with Amazon, technology leaders within the team and across the business
- You will design, develop and deploy reliable distributed solutions that operate at Amazon scale
- You will work with a variety of core languages and technologies including Java, Python, Kotlin, React, and AWS services
- Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on many people
- Most importantly you’ll be contributing to our Higher Purpose of Nourishing People and the Planet!
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.
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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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