About the position
Zappos is looking for a Software Development Engineer III to help drive technical decisions and implementations for our Engage Tech Engineering Team. Your decisions and implementations will help our aim to increase customer engagement via targeted outbound marketing strategies, help customers make informed purchases, and ensure customer loyalty with Zappos. Join a dynamic team developing new and exciting products. You'll collaborate with product managers, fellow engineers, and UX designers to deliver innovative solutions. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, demonstrates strong technical leadership, and maintains meticulous attention to detail. We're passionate about creating intuitive, enjoyable experiences for Zappos customers. Our team members are our greatest asset, and we're committed to fostering an inclusive environment that embraces diversity and our core leadership principles. We encourage calculated risk-taking, value learning from experience, and prioritize open, honest communication.
Responsibilities
- Exhibit depth of knowledge and familiarity with technologies to identify and deliver innovative technical solutions that meet business needs and scale with growth.
- Effectively develop and maintain Java based applications utilizing AWS based services (Lambda/ECS/SQS/S3/DynamoDB/Redshift).
- Partner with other engineers, product managers and UX designers to ensure optimal customer experiences.
- Guide juniors members to build sustainable architectures and establish guidelines for best-practices and instill a culture of quality and craftsmanship.
- Help drive the architecture and technology choices that enable an elegant and practical code.
- Evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing software products and tools.
- Experience with or strong interest in Machine Learning and Generative AI technologies is highly valued.
- Work backwards from customer problems, figure out solutions, and implement them for speed and scalability.
- Produce clear and comprehensive software documentation.
Requirements
- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
- 7+ 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.
- Bachelor's degree.
Nice-to-haves
- 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
Benefits
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
