About the position
Zappos is looking for a highly-skilled and experienced Software Development Engineer II to help drive technical decisions and implementations for our EngageTech Engineering Team. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining our software solutions. Your deep expertise in Java technologies and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be instrumental in driving the success of our projects. You will be working with a unique and gifted team developing new, exciting products. You will collaborate closely with product managers, software engineers and UX designers. You should be comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced and often uncertain environment, and contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating leadership and meticulousness. We have a relentless focus to shape the experience to be fun and intuitive for Zappos customers. Our most valuable attributes are the people that make up the team. We embrace Amazon leadership principles so you should apply if you are not afraid to create a little fun and weirdness! We value diversity and want to make our team as inclusive as possible. We do this by building strong relationships through open and honest communication. We value people that are not afraid to take risks and quickly learn from mistakes.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement complex software applications using Java, with focus on Spring and related frameworks.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, cross-functional, and UX teams to gather requirements, design architecture, and deliver high-quality software solutions that meet business needs.
- Effectively develop and maintain Java based applications utilizing AWS based services (Lambda/ECS/SNS/SQS/S3/DynamoDB/Redshift).
- Utilize your extensive experience in AWS services to architect, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable cloud-based solutions.
- Optimize application performance, identify bottlenecks, and propose and implement effective solutions.
- Ensure code quality through code reviews, automated testing, and best practices in software engineering.
- Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continuously enhance the development process and architecture.
Requirements
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ 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
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Expertise in dependency injection, including SpringMVC, Spring Boot, or Guice, and solid computer science fundamentals (theory, data structures, algorithms)
- Strong problem-solving skills and solid understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices
- Proven track record of successfully design, build, deliver and troubleshooting complex service-oriented systems
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
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
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
