Software Development Engineer, Amazon
CA$114.8-191.8k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$114.8-191.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Development of the end-to-end services and processes to give Amazon employees options for pay, training, and job choices
- Build the most extensive pay premium, job training, and career mobility options on earth
- Use modern technologies to solve complex problems at scale
- Deliver solutions that scale in volume and handle the complexity of diverse workflows and country specific rules/regulations
- Own automation of business processes in a full stack, mostly server-less environment using proven, as well as evolving native AWS services and other technologies to create a friction free user experience
- Solve the challenging problem of scaling these services to serve hundreds of thousands of Amazonians across the globe in real-time
- Be a technical innovator that is not afraid to challenge the norms and innovate
- Execute against project plans and delivery commitments
- Build highly available, scalable, and performant tier-one services to power responsive, intuitive, and sleek experiences for customers
- Solve complex business and technical problems by diving deep, collecting data to make well informed decisions, and using sound judgement in the face of insufficient data
- Work with the latest technologies to innovate on behalf of the employee
- As a Software Development Engineer, you will design, develop, and test Amazon-scale enterprise business systems serving hundreds of thousands associates worldwide.
- You will also continuously learn new technologies, the latest industry techniques, and gets to use the newest AWS tools.
- In addition, you will get to develop new systems, support robust business tools, and integrate with other internal systems within Amazon's world-class operations
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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