Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Woots customers love crap. Well, Bags of Crap. Woot! is the original daily deals website, and were looking for a senior software development engineer to help us continue to be that weird itch that our customers cant seem to get rid of.

As much as Woots customers enjoy excitement and surprise when they're shopping on the site, a surprise is the last thing they want after they've given us money - whether with an issue while they place their order, or with a delayed package, or by receiving the wrong item, or customer service not being able to resolve their issue quickly. That's where you come in. Join the tech team that owns the post-ordering experience for Woot, including the order processing pipeline, payment, fulfillment, customer service functions, coupon/promotions, and accounting ingestion.

Were looking for an experienced engineer who can bring their unique perspectives to help grow the teams processes and architecture, so that our quality, velocity, supportability, and customer experience grows with our growing business. Listening, collaborating, empathizing, obsessing about our customers, and digging into the details are all key qualities in a candidate.

Why Woot!?
Have an outsized impact on the customers and business results of a scrappy subsidiary. Own, build, and maintain a broad set of services. Work on systems and projects that have big customer impacts and big impacts to Woots bottom line.
Work closely with other software developers, data engineers, and product managers. Work closely with your internal customers - vendor managers, finance, marketing, warehouse, and customer service. Observe and interact with our (sometimes weird) customers first-hand in our forums.
Evaluate, prototype, and evangelize new tools and high level architecture for the entire Woot! subsidiary
Dodge flying screaming monkeys from time to time

Why this Woot! team?
Add to an already-strong team of engineers with a culture of teamwork and cooperation - not just a collection of individuals.
Lead by example by writing clear, testable, maintainable code
Collaborate with your peers to set improved goals and standards for software development and project management practices
Provide your unique fresh perspective.
Mentor junior engineers in the team and help them grow in their technical prowess
Both build new services and improve existing web services and message workers to use modern AWS architecture approaches - leveraging Lambda, SNS/SQS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Cognito and beyond

Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C including object-oriented design
1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience with AWS and/or distributed computing, serverless applications, and non-relational data stores
Experience working with non-technical customers - building high-trust relationships, understanding their needs, and driving down ambiguities in requirements
Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive