Senior Software Development Engineer, Digital Acceleration

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in digital content delivery, Amazon, is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to drive the development of scalable web services for its Digital Content Platform. The role involves significant creativity, technical acumen, and leadership to enhance services like Kindle Books and Amazon Music.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience leading design or architecture of systems.
• Mentorship or tech lead experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and development of high-scale web services.
• Design and develop back-end web services using cloud technologies.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead technical initiatives.

Skills

Software Development

Architecture Design

Back-end Development

Analytical Reasoning

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Senior Software Development Engineer, Digital Acceleration

Amazon.com is looking for a talented and enthusiastic Senior Software Development Engineer to join the Digital Content Platform team. The Digital Acceleration Commerce team owns services supporting the publishing, pricing and purchase of Digital content, including Kindle Books, Amazon AppStore, Amazon Music, Amazon Video, etc.

This candidate will be joining a team working on scalable web services using cloud technologies. The work will be highly visible to Amazon customers and internal stakeholders.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, this person will lead the architecture and development of high-scale web services and workflows. A successful candidate will have an established background in designing and developing back-end web services, strong technical skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, high creativity, and great analytical reasoning skills.

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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