Software Development Engineer, Amazon
FinAuto
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
- If you're interested in building the next generation of financial, distributed, and directed work systems that support Amazon scale, and want to have a direct and immediate impact with customers, this job is for you
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Desirable
- 5+ 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
- We are responsible for building the systems that automate and orchestrate the services, analytics, and financial transactions that supports Amazon customers and vendors worldwide
- Our talented teams span across the globe and depend on our systems to perform their work, and serve customers efficiently, effectively, and securely
- We build, operate, and scale systems that are responsible for billions of dollars in transactions, and are central to the success of worldwide finance
- We’re searching for an engineering leader (Senior SDE)
- Senior SDE defines bar raising standards for operational excellence and engineering best practices
- They lead by example in implementing the standards and educate others by coding critical parts of the software, provide insightful code reviews, lead design reviews, review internal and external designs, and influence other teams
- They write code, oversee the development progress to identify the technical blockers or process bottlenecks, and proactively take lead in resolving them
- Senior SDEs act as force multipliers by mentoring and coaching SDEs, enabling them to innovate, deliver impactful results, and grow
- We collaborate across disciplines
- You will have the opportunity to work with cross functional teams, closely engaging with product managers, customers, principal engineer, researchers and data engineers to innovate, measure, analyze and refine the experiences we deliver to our users across the planet on a daily basi
- The Collections engineering team is part of the Receivables Tech group, which in turn falls under the Finance Automation org. We build and manage applications that help in reducing the risk to Amazon's free cash flows by millions
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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