Principal Software Engineer, US Prime & Marketing Tech

ENGINEERINGUK; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

An established industry player is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead cross-functional projects and innovate on customer engagement technologies. This role involves tackling complex challenges, ensuring high-quality architecture, and mentoring team members. You will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and make a significant impact on the customer experience. Join a dynamic team that values diversity and empowers its members to excel while contributing to the development of large-scale systems in a collaborative environment. If you're passionate about technology and problem-solving, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Formación

• Experience in professional software development with a focus on architecture and design.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures is essential.

Responsabilidades

• Lead technical projects and ensure quality architecture and design.
• Mentor team members and collaborate with business teams for innovation.

Conocimientos

Object-Oriented Design

Data Structures

Algorithms

Software Development

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Mentoring

System Architecture

Performance Engineering

Descripción del empleo

Principal Software Engineer, US Prime & Marketing Tech

DESCRIPTION

Do you want to reach the next level on your career? Do you want new challenges and solve hard problems while using top-notch technologies?

Join us and you'll help millions of customers to discover the hottest and best-of-breed products from a multi billion catalog!

The Discovery Tech team helps customers discover and engage with new, popular and relevant products across Amazon worldwide. We do this by combining technology, science, and innovation to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside cutting edge tools for marketers. You will be responsible for creating and building critical services that automatically generate, target, and optimize Amazon's cross-category marketing and merchandising. Through the enablement of intelligent marketing campaigns that leverage machine-learning models, you will help to deliver the best possible shopping experience for Amazon's customers all over the globe.

We need bright and very talented people to help us fulfil our mission of making Amazon the most loved destination for each customer in the World!

We believe in regular feature develop and frequent experimentation, allowing us to continuously improve the customer experience. You will have the opportunity to explore the many channels Amazon provides for customer outreach and engagement, both onsite and offsite. As a new team, we carry little tech debt. We prioritize writing high quality and maintainable code, and build systems that leverage existing tools to provide extensive test coverage across our services. The team provides a great opportunity to make an outsized impact in a burgeoning space and on fresh or even yet to be built services. There are few opportunities anywhere to start on a new team and make an immediate impact at this scale. Come with us and let's find the best future, together.

Key job responsibilities

• As a Principal Engineer you will be expected to serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.
• Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
• Fully and completely understand system inter-dependencies and limitations.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Leverage knowledge of internal and industry prior art in design decisions.
• Effectively research and benchmark Amazon technology against other competing systems in the industry.
• Contribute intellectual property through patents.
• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
• Navigate with other teams in Amazon and influence their design and roadmap decisions for the benefit of our region.
• Collaborate with the business teams to identify opportunities and innovate on behalf of our customers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture).

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.