Application Engineer, Emplify Product Suite

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Application Engineer to support and enhance their product suite. You will work closely with business teams to develop automated solutions, troubleshoot issues, and ensure system robustness. The ideal candidate will have experience in Java, React JS, and possess strong problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in software development or technical support.
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting systems.
• Strong knowledge in Java or Python.

Responsibilities

• Implementing and maintaining scalable solutions.
• Translation of business requirements into deliverables.
• On-call support for application issues.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Debugging

Java

React JS

Scripting

Problem Solving

Education

BS in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Unix

REST web services

Job description

Application Engineer, Emplify Product Suite

Retail Business Services (RBS) supports Amazon’s Retail business growth WW through three core tasks. These are (a) Selection, where RBS sources, creates and enrich ASINs to drive GMS growth; (b) Defect Elimination: where RBS resolves inbound supply chain defects and develops root cause fixes to improve free cash flow and (c) supports operational process for WW Retail teams where there is an air gap in the tech stack. The tech team in RBS develops automation that leverages Machine/Deep Learning to scale execution of these high complex tasks that currently require human cognitive skills. Our solutions ensure that information in Amazon's catalog is complete, correct and, comprehensive enough to give Amazon customers a great shopping experience every time. That's where you can help.

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a sharp, experienced Application Engineer (AE) with a diverse skillset and background. As an AE, you will work directly with our business teams to solve their support needs with the existing applications and collect requirements and ways to solve highly scalable solutions in collaboration with other technical teams. You will play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables and building scalable systems. You will also contribute to maintain the services healthy and robust.You will be responsible for implementing, and maintaining the solutions you provide. You will work closely with engineers on maintaining multiple products and services, creating process automation scripts, monitoring and handling ad-hoc operational asks. You understand the business impact of support decisions and drive the team to improve operational efficiency for all services through the identification and development of SLAs, metrics, monitors, procedures, tools, and documentation. On-call support is a critical responsibility where you will work on issues related to alarm monitoring, application infrastructure and bug fixes. On-boarding clients on to the platform and familiarizing them with platform features and capabilities.

A day in the life
Basic qualifications:

2+ years of software development or 2+ years of technical support experience
Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
Experience in React JS & Java as front-end & Back-end
Experience scripting in modern program languages
BS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Strong Knowledge of one high level programming language (preferably Java or python)
Ability to solve complex problems independently.
Understanding of the complete deployment life cycle from design, build, test & deploy.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of software development, or 2+ years of technical support experience
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Experience in Unix
- Experience scripting in modern program languages

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of web services, distributed systems, and web application development
- Experience troubleshooting & maintaining hardware & software RAID
- Experience with REST web services, XML, JSON

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