Software Development Engineer, Amazon

GDT MARS

$129.3-223.6k

React
AWS
TypeScript
Python
Java
Athena
Kinesis
DynamoDB
Mid and Senior level
Austin
New York
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Open for applications

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Open for applications

$129.3-223.6k

React
AWS
TypeScript
Python
Java
Athena
Kinesis
DynamoDB
Mid and Senior level
Austin
New York

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • Are you passionate about working on disruptive ideas?
  • Are you obsessed with finding and building the most innovative and customer-friendly user experiences?
  • Have you built and launched new experiences that impact shoppers all around the world?
  • We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented full stack developer to join our team at Grocery Data Tech
  • The successful candidate will be comfortable in operating an ambiguous space with strong technical ability, project management skills, and background in building products both on the backend and frontend
  • You should be innovative, have effective engineering leadership and communication skills, and be team oriented
  • Is comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership and never shies away from a challenge
  • 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
  • 2+ years of full stack development experience
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
  • Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

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
  • 2+ years of React experience
  • 2+ years of Python and/or Java experience
  • Experience in AWS Services like Dynamo, Lambdas, S3, Athena, Kinesis, Glue, TimeStream

What the job involves

  • This is a unique full-stack opportunity that combines the ability to build exciting, new user experiences for Amazon's customers with the opportunity to work with BigData and other advanced techniques to provide the best personalized experience for hundreds of millions of Amazon customers
  • The development will be from the concept stage to the launch stage and ensuring the highest level of quality for your team’s deliverables
  • As a Software Development Engineer in the MARS team, you will design, develop and maintain services to empower Groceries Data Tech organization like providing Near Real Time data to our partners, track and monitor data assets and data pipelines and much more
  • The scale and the complexity of the data we manage requires constant innovation and pushing the boundaries on what’s possible
  • This role offers you an opportunity to work on Vice President level visibility initiatives and make a lasting impression on how grocery data is managed and distributed across the globe
  • You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative customer experiences
  • You will create new solutions in a responsive, flexible and collaborative peer environment
  • You will participate in designing, prototyping, and building solutions to hard problems in the Amazon ecosystem for our exciting future in consumer devices
  • Design and implement features and services to automate our org flows
  • Work with other teams to investigate and document design approaches and evaluate technical feasibility
  • Ensure the performance and responsiveness of applications
  • Help maintain code quality and operational efficiency
  • Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
  • Promotes robust, maintainable code and clear documentation
  • You’ll write code, as well as work on technical designs and architecture
  • We prioritize writing high quality and maintainable code and build systems that leverage existing tools to provide extensive support for our org necessities
  • The team builds serverless web applications and apis primarily in Python and React/Typescript and we have a couple of integrations written in Java
  • You will be a part of an agile development team following innovative best practices in bi-weekly scrums. We have 90% coverage on our code, full CI/CD and a very small operational load

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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Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
  • Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
  • 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

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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