Software Development Engineer, Device OS

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

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Software Development Engineer for a large-scale project involving cloud application development and AWS services. This role focuses on both embedded and cloud development, requiring a strong background in software engineering and cloud technologies. You will be responsible for making high-level design decisions, guiding junior team members, and ensuring operational excellence. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will directly impact business-critical projects and enhance customer experiences. If you thrive in a challenging environment and are passionate about technology, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience required.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Make design decisions and own end-to-end development for features.
• Interact with stakeholders to clarify requirements and resolve dependencies.

Skills

Software Development

Design Patterns

Cloud Development

C/C++ Programming

API Development

Operational Excellence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS Services (EC2, RDS, S3, etc.)

CI/CD Pipeline Tools

CDK

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Device OS

This Job is for a challenging, complex, high volume, and large scale project involving various AWS services and integrations, CI/CD pipeline creation and management, CDK development, and cloud application development and deployment across multiple AWS regions. Tools development for monitoring and operational excellence is also a key focus.

Key job responsibilities:

1. Make high-level and low-level design decisions and own end-to-end development for specific features while providing technical guidance to junior team members.
2. Feature development.
3. Peer code and design review.
4. Interact with internal and external stakeholders (Dev and QA) to clarify requirements and resolve dependencies.
5. Participate in on-call rotation.

About the team

The team is working on a business-critical, high visibility, large scale project involving embedded development (device side) and cloud development (AWS services, API, CDK, pipelines, container management).

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling of new and existing systems.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• 4+ years of working experience in cloud development, handling large scale deployments.
• In-depth knowledge and working experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, EBS, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFront, VPC, AutoScaling, Global Accelerator, etc.) is mandatory.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 3+ years of experience in cloud application development, API development, and cloud deployment, handling various AWS services.
• 3+ years of experience in C/C++ development (MUST).

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