Senior Software Development Engineer

Amazon Middle East and North Africa FZ-LLC; Dubai; On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Middle East and North Africa FZ-LLC is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead a new team focused on innovative solutions for expanding Amazon Grocery in the MENA region. This role offers an opportunity to impact software design and architecture significantly while mentoring and guiding fellow engineers in a dynamic, agile environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design and code solutions for defined problems.
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence.
• Mentor others and influence high level design.

Skills

Programming

Leadership

Design Patterns

Reliability

Scaling

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Want to change the way millions of people communicate, shop, and have fun? Do you want to be the lead for a newly established team with an exciting charter?

MENA Tech / Amazon Now team focuses on building innovative solutions for expanding Amazon Grocery in UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented Senior Software Development Engineer who can build innovative & mission critical system software applications, and tools. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and development of consumer products. You will be responsible for delivery and support of large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications and tools.

We want a highly technical individual with strong leadership to help put Amazon’s products in the hands of customers all around the globe.

Responsibilities :

• Ability to design and code right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence.
• Work with other team members to develop the architecture and design of new and current systems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high quality software.
• As a senior engineer, you will be expected to mentor others on the team and raise the bar on high level design. You will be expected to convert business goals into tech solutions.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ 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

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