Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Want to work with brilliant engineers who are changing the world? Want to solve technical problems at scale on the largest Elasticsearch cluster at Amazon? We're looking for passionate Software Development Engineers (SDEs) like you who are entrepreneurial and ready to tackle your next career challenge!
Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon.com continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world. Amazons vision is to offer the earths largest selection and lowest prices to our customers.
Over 5MM Sellers in 12 countries (and growing) list their products for sale on the Amazon.com Marketplace. Sellers are a critical part of Amazons ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering the earths largest selection and lowest prices. Our business currently represents more than 50% of Amazon units sold, and is growing all the time.
The Marketplace organization drives the Selling on Amazon business and develops solutions that enable millions of sellers around the world to sell to more than 200MM customers (and growing). These solutions include the software platform and applications that drive demand generation, customer acquisition, seller integration, customer relationship management, business analytics, and the inventory and order management functions necessary for sellers to manage their business online at Amazon.com.
Our team is made up of people like you. People who are:
Entrepreneurial We build solutions for all sellers, regardless of size. In fact, many of us are sellers ourselves.
Innovative Our problem space evolves every day due to scale, new categories and new geographies. There is no playbook for a Marketplace of this size, so innovation and creativity are a must.
Passionate We are passionate about our customers, both sellers and buyers. Everyones an owner at Amazon, and our team is no exception. Our business is growing fast and the pace is even faster.
Leaders We recognize the desire for people to lead, whether it is the development of a new feature or ownership of a new category. We invest in our team members, providing challenging roles with significant responsibility. Coaching and mentoring is taken seriously to ensure we continue to build a company we can be extremely proud of.
The Listing Services teams build and operate the core platforms and services that support our sellers via interactive applications, feed processing systems, reporting frameworks and Web service APIs. Sellers use these systems to manage their products and inventory levels on Amazon websites and they are mission-critical to our sellers businesses. The Listing Services team mission is to provide the most innovative, scalable, and reliable systems in the world to ensure our sellers success.

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
Position Requirements:
In-depth knowledge of a modern programming language such as Java/ C; web technologies and modern web development frameworks, javascript, react
BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
6+ years experience in software development
Experience leading and mentoring others as a team lead, coach, or mentor

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Full stack experience
Strong written and spoken communication skills
Masters degree in Computer Science
Experience working in agile development environments.
Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
Experience influencing software engineering best practices within your team
Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
Passion for building complex systems and a proven ability to deliver quality code
Self-directed and capable of working effectively in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment
Proven ability to work within ambiguous design constraints
Work well in teams and respect and welcome ideas from partners, business stakeholders, and technical experts
Passion for solving complex and interesting problems
Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code
Strong written and oral presentation skills
Maniacal Customer Obsession

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