Senior Software Development Engineer, AWD

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking team at a leading global company, where you'll have the chance to create innovative supply chain solutions. As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you'll engage in a dynamic environment, tackling challenging problems in distributed systems and algorithms. Your expertise will help shape the future of supply chain technology, ensuring exceptional experiences for customers worldwide. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with talented engineers, mentor team members, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement. If you're passionate about building world-class software and eager to make an impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience leading design and architecture of systems.
• Mentoring or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Drive improvements to technology by collaborating with engineers.
• Develop highly scalable backend systems and customer-facing applications.
• Continuously improve customer experience through innovative solutions.

Skills

Software Development

Programming Languages

Design Patterns

Distributed Systems

Algorithms

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Source Control Management

Build Processes

Testing Frameworks

Job description

Senior Software Development Engineer, AWD

Are you looking for an opportunity to create a new supply chain product? We are a startup team working to enable organizations across the world with reliable, cost-effective, and flexible end-to-end supply chain solutions, to help them scale, succeed, and offer the best in class experience to their customers.

Amazon has spent years building one of the world’s most efficient and optimized supply chains. Amazon Warehousing and Distribution (AWD) org will build on that foundation and continue to innovate to offer a multi-tenant, bulk storage and distribution service.

As a developer on the team, you’ll drive improvements to our technology, collaborating with sharp engineers and highly engaged users to ship code continuously. We have many domains ranging from highly scalable transactional backend systems to complex optimization problems to customer-facing applications/APIs, so if you love building world-class software of any type, most likely we have a place for you.

We’re looking for software development engineers who share our passion for continuously improving the customer experience, who are motivated by challenging problems in distributed systems, algorithms, and HCI, and who love writing great code. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.