Software Development Engineer, EU Engagement Tech Team in London, United Kingdom

Description

Amazon is looking for a talented and enthusiastic Software Development Engineer to join the EU Engagement Tech team.

Software Development Engineers will be responsible for the design, development, delivery and support of large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications and tools. This job requires you to hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks that will define your success. You will be working closely with business partners, software development engineers, UI/UX designers and product managers to build new customer-facing experiences in a fast paced environment.

Key job responsibilities

• Architect, design and build large-scale digital marketing optimisation systems that power Amazon websites.

• Own the delivery of end-to-end, full stack solutions.

• Make sound engineering decisions and improve our software development practices.

• Build analytics platforms to process large volumes of traffic data, trends in marketing signals, and other key metrics.

• Build experimentation frameworks to drive continuous testing new marketing experiences.

• Contribute to the team’s technical vision and roadmap.

A day in the life

A SDE2 in this role is in charge of end-to-end project ownership and developing full-stack solutions ranging from building scalable softwares to process large volumes of data, building big-data platforms to process customer level data and to capture marketing signals for analytics and measurement. They work with cross-functional teams containing UI/UX designers, product/marketing managers to build new customer experiences. They contribute to the team’s technical vision and roadmap by actively contributing to design and code reviews. The role is expected to implement best practices for code quality, testing and deployment in an AWS environment (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, ECS etc).

Basic Qualifications

• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

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