Software Development Engineer, Amazon

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is on the lookout for a dynamic Software Development Engineer to join their innovative Core Services team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the customer shopping journey through foundational products that drive checkout and fulfillment experiences. You will engage with cross-functional teams to scope complex projects, optimize time-to-market, and deliver elegant solutions. With a focus on distributed systems and innovative technologies, this position promises significant impact and growth within a collaborative and inclusive culture that empowers you to excel. If you are passionate about technology and ready to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience required.
• Experience in design or architecture of systems is essential.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to design and deliver innovative solutions.
• Build scalable, fault-tolerant systems in a distributed environment.

Skills

Software Development

Distributed Systems

Agile Methodologies

Design Patterns

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent

Tools

Source Control Management

Build Processes

Job description

Are you an innovative and accomplished professional seeking a role with significant impact and growth? Amazon is looking for a dynamic Software Development Engineer to join our Core Services team under Worldwide Customer Purchase Journey.

The Shipping and Region Authority (SARA) organization innovates on foundational products that shape the customer shopping journey, beginning from the gateway page of their visit through search and discovery experiences. SARA’s products also help drive checkout and fulfillment customer experiences. Through a complex orchestration of its four domains (Shipping, Regions, Locations, Restrictions), SARA influences and frames the shopping CX. Our systems are architected for scale and consistency, offering configurable, flexible, and global solutions (standardized globally but customized for local regulations). We integrate with multiple cross-technology and functional services to identify customer locations, identify the shipping options, and apply sales and shipping restrictions.

In this role, you will scope complex projects and deliver simple, elegant solutions by collecting product and business requirements, driving the development schedule from design to release, making appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-market, and clearly communicating goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional teams. You will interact with a broad cross-section of the Amazon organization, clarify ambiguous issues, and negotiate effective technical solutions between development and business teams. You will anticipate bottlenecks and escalate issues when required to ensure on-time delivery. This role requires a seasoned individual with excellent experience as a Software Development Engineer for distributed SOA software systems and the ability to guide high-level technical design while considering potential future areas of fraud our platform might encounter.

Key Job Responsibilities

1. Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
2. Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
3. Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
4. Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
5. Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
6. Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

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