Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Payroll Tech
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
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 (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in writing algorithms and creating data structures
- Experience with architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases such as Oracle, SQL, Mongo DB, DynamoDB etc
Desirable
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience in payroll operations
- Experience with AWS technologies
- Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and databases
- Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly-available systems
What the job involves
- Your job will be to design, develop, and deliver the solutions to complex and ambiguous problems with the highest standards
- Work with the customers in the Payroll space to understand and disambiguate their problems
- Help in identifying the solution to our customers' problems
- Design high-level and low-level application application architecture to to address functional and non-functional requirements
- Coding and reviewing code of your peers to implement the solution
- Write automated unit test cases
- Deliver the solution to production using the best Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment patterns
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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