Friday, July 31, 2020

Amazon - Software Development Engineer II - Backend Technologies (3-8 yrs) (Amazon)

Job Description :


- Amazon (ADCI) - If you are looking for an opportunity to solve deep technical problems and build innovative solutions in a fast paced environment working with smart, passionate software developers, this might be the role for you. Amazon's Products & systems get millions of packages to customers worldwide faster and cheaper while providing world class customer experience - from checkout to shipment tracking to delivery. Our software systems include services that handle thousands or requests per second, make business decisions impacting billions of dollars a year, integrate with a network of small and large carriers worldwide, manage business rules for millions of unique products, and improve experience for millions of online shoppers. 


- With rapid expansion into new geographies, innovations in supply chain, delivery models and customer experience, increasingly complex transportation network, ever expanding selection of products and growing number of shipments worldwide, we have an opportunity to build software that scales the business, leads the industry through innovation and delights millions of customers worldwide.

Basic Qualifications :

- 3 + years- experience building successful production software systems

- A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field)

- The ability to take convert raw requirements into good design while exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs

- Good understanding of at least some of the modern programming languages (Java) and open-source technologies (C++, Python, Scala, C#, PHP, Ruby etc..)

- Excellence in technical communication

- Has experience in mentoring other software developers

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience developing service oriented architectures and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability

- Demonstrated ability to mentor other software developers to maintain architectural vision and software quality

- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment

- Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative application

- Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

- Strong organizational and problem solving skills with great attention to detail

- Ability to triage issues, react well to changes, work with teams and ability to multi-task on multiple products and projects.

- Experience building highly scalable, high availability services

- The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader, builder and operator.

- He/she should have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts and initiatives.

- He/she needs to balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.

- He/she needs to be constantly striving for simplicity, and at the same time demonstrate significant creativity, innovation and judgment

- Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language.

- Experience in SQL or Non-SQL database.

- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.

- Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.

- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.

- Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills.

Good to Have :

- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

- Experience with enterprise-wide systems

- Experience influencing software engineers best practices within your team

- Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between

- Strong written and verbal communication skills preferred


Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation/ Age

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