Software Development Engineer, Amazon Music Catalog

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that is revolutionizing music streaming! As a Software Development Engineer, you'll be part of an agile team dedicated to creating innovative consumer-facing products. This role offers the opportunity to work on large-scale systems that enhance customer engagement and music discovery. You'll leverage cutting-edge technology and collaborate with talented professionals to drive new projects forward. If you're passionate about software development and eager to tackle challenges in a dynamic environment, this position is perfect for you. Embrace the chance to make a meaningful impact in the music industry and help shape the future of music enjoyment for millions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience in design patterns, reliability, and scaling of systems.

Responsibilities

• Build large-scale, high-performance customer-friendly products.
• Design multi-tier services to handle huge datasets.

Skills

C++

Java

WebServices

XML

Apache services

Linux system development

OO design

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Source control management

Build processes

Testing

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Amazon Music Catalog

Amazon Music

Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions. Picture working on cutting-edge consumer-facing products, where every single team member is a critical voice in the decision-making process. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up. Welcome to Amazon Music, where ideas are born and come to life as Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music, and so much more.

Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music streaming, and customer engagement. We are looking for new team members across a variety of job functions including software engineering/development, marketing, design, ops and more. Come join us as we make history by launching exciting new projects in the coming year.

Our team is focused on building a personalized, curated, and seamless music experience. We want to help our customers discover up-and-coming artists, while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build systems that are distributed on a large scale, spanning our music apps, web player, and voice-forward audio engagement on mobile and Amazon Echo devices, powered by Alexa to support our customer base. Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world, and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives.

Come innovate with the Amazon Music team!

Are you interested in working in a team that is changing the way Amazon customers enjoy music? We are looking for smart, motivated Software Development Engineers who can help take the service to new heights. If you have experience building large-scale, high-performance, customer-friendly products and are interested in designing multi tier services to handle a huge dataset, this is the job for you.

Our innovative systems include high efficient and large scale platform built on Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure. For this position you will have a strong background in OO design with C++/Java. Experience working with WebServices, XML, Apache services is desired. Linux system development experience is a plus. Equally important to these specific skills is the ability to multi-task, quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems.

You are highly-motivated and thrive in an environment where problems are open-ended. You enjoy engaging in passionate discussions with smart people and letting the best ideas rise to the top. You see your mistakes as learning opportunities and continually look for ways to improve yourself, your team and your products. You understand that not all solutions come easily and don’t shy away from hard work to reach your goals.

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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ 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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