Software Development Engineer II

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join their innovative team focused on creating advanced supply chain solutions. You will collaborate with engineers to improve technology, tackle complex optimization problems, and enhance customer experiences. Ideal candidates should have a strong technical background, entrepreneurial spirit, and experience in agile software development.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of agile software development methodology experience.
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the full development life cycle.
• Own the delivery of a piece of a system or application.
• Drive improvements in processes and operational excellence.

Skills

Agile Software Development

Problem Solving

System Design

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Are you looking for an opportunity to create a new supply chain product? We are a startup team working 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 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 engineer 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.

Key job responsibilities
• Participate in the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters, including test plan execution and software quality needs.
• Own the delivery of a piece of a system or application
• System Design (front-end / back-end, performance, security, etc)
• Execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
• Build software solutions where the problem is defined to a point.
• Create and execute appropriate project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts.
• Drive improvements in processes and operational excellence
• Help to mentor junior team members

A day in the life
The ideal candidate will be a leader, quick learner and be able to work independently. He/she should be able to operate in a very fast paced environment where time to hit market is super critical.
• The candidate will need to balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
• 4+ years of agile software development methodology experience

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
- 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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