Software Development Engineer, Amazon
GTMC, ACT
CA$114.8-191.8k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$114.8-191.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Successful candidates will be strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivering large scale solutions
- 2+ 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
- 2+ 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
- Amazon Compensation Technology Team is seeking an innovative and highly motivated Software Development Engineer to join our growing organization
- We are building new software products and large scale distributed systems which will manage the compensation experience for Amazon’s rapidly growing workforce
- We are empowered to think big at Amazon, and the Amazon Compensation Technology Team is doing just that
- Where third-party products don’t scale to meet our needs, we build our own products which provide the scalability and flexibility we need
- We take full advantage of the amazing technology toolset we have
- We use AWS technologies such as Lambda, Dynamo DB, SQS, SNS, SWS, Redshift, S3, and many others to build highly scalable solutions
- We directly shape the future growth of Amazon and the impact of our work can be seen all around us
- We are looking for a strong Software Development Engineer who can take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous problems
- You will own and heavily influence the architecture and design, and will write a significant portion of the "critical-path" code
- You will influence the team's technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach
- You will contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operations
- You will push your design and architecture by owning all aspects of solutions end-to-end, through full stack software development
- Designing, implementing, and testing software solutions using native AWS technologies
- Collaborating with product managers and customers to manage requirements for new features and updates to existing systems
- Partnering with the Compensation, Jobs and other teams to translate complex business logic into reusable and scalable code
- Periodically providing on-call support for ACE systems
- Coaching and mentoring junior engineers on the team
- Working with some of the most talented and dedicated team members you can find
- Having fun
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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