About the position
Do you thrive on performing in a fast paced environment where your actions will directly impact a billion dollar business with global reach? Do you want to lead initiatives that will have a significant impact to Amazon's customer experience and bottom line? The Creators organization at Amazon is looking for talented Software Development Engineers with a passion for highly scalable distributed systems to help us re-imagine social shopping! We own the Amazon Associates and Amazon Influencer programs and our mission is to become the Earth's most desired destination for commerce creators across the world, and their content. We ensure a cohesive experience for all creators, expand their opportunities to earn through innovation, and launch experiences that reinforce their feeling of achievement. Amazon and Associates Program are growing at an incredible rate. To keep up with that growth we must continually innovate to define and build different ways to compensate and reward our creators. We are launching new products, and are seeking experienced, results-oriented software developers, who can use big data and analytical techniques to design and implement scalable solutions for business problems. As a technical leader for your space, you'll manipulate and process TB-sized data, supporting real-time access and orchestration across multiple systems. This role will have a profound impact on millions of creators across the world. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, this role is for you.
Responsibilities
- Lead development effort for the future of Amazon Associates and Influencers worldwide, balancing short and long-term technology investments.
- Own and enhance core services and data central to Amazon Associates and Influencers experience.
- Work on projects that require innovative and creative thinking, deep technical problem solving, and mentor other engineers.
- Contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation and testing.
Requirements
- 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.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice-to-haves
- 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.
