Software Development Engineer II, RISC

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the Regulatory Intelligence, Safety, and Compliance (RISC) engineering team. The role involves designing and building highly scalable systems to enhance customer safety and ensure product compliance, using cutting-edge technologies like AI and machine learning. Candidates should have a passion for consumer-facing applications and a commitment to quality.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience of new and existing systems.
• Experience with at least one programming language.

Responsibilities

• Define system architecture and implement specific components.
• Collaborate with product managers and UX designers to define product scope.
• Write high-quality, efficient, testable code in Java.

Skills

Software development

Java

Object-oriented programming

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Want to join a team that protects and improves the buyer experience of millions Amazon customers and builds earth's most customer-centric sellers daily - using innovative technology including machine learning, data mining and big data analytics, cloud computing services, and highly available/scalable distributed systems that support hundreds of millions of transactions across the globe?

We have an exciting opportunity with the Regulatory Intelligence, Safety, and Compliance (RISC) engineering team, to architect and build next-generation engineering systems to quickly and accurately identify and mitigate product safety issues and potential risks to the customer experience.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will work with your team of highly skilled software, data, and ML engineers to invent, design, build and manage highly scalable distributed systems that provide availability, scalability and latency guarantees. You will work with your internal customers to balance customer requirements with team requirements and help your team and business evolve, by working with LLMs and large data sets. You will be using the latest AI, AWS and industry technologies to deliver a one-stop risk identification and remediation ecosystem for Amazon, keeping our customers safe and products compliant, building the software creating the world’s most trustworthy data set on everything companies and customers need to know related to the safety and compliance of products and chains.

Each and every person buying, selling, or handling Amazon products will be your customer.

As a member of this growing team, you’ll be able to build the groundwork and influence its direction for the years to come. Our work cuts across various disciplines — from delivering an awesome user experience via great UI/UX, to building massively scalable backend systems to support the most high-traffic pages on Amazon.com, to analytical and feedback systems which give us data-driven customer insights, to using machine learning and AI to influence recommendations and marketing. If you have a passion for consumer-facing applications, and are obsessed with customer experience, we want you!

If you’d like to make a real-world difference by working hard, having fun, and making history, this is the team for you!

Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
- Help define the system architecture, own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall experience
- Collaborate closely with product managers, UX designers, and other SDE team members to help define the scope of the product
- Take responsibility for technical problem solving, creatively meeting product objectives, and developing best practices
- Demonstrate cross-functional resource interaction to accomplish your goals
- Write high-quality, efficient, testable code in Java and other object-oriented languages
- Design Amazon-scale tools to facilitate internal business
- Build highly available, secure, and low-latency systems
- Mentor other developers
- Find out what it takes to engineer systems for "Amazon Scale"
- Design and build microservices
- Own and operate the systems that you build based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements
- Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement

A day in the life
High-level designs, cross-team alignment, long-term architectural roadmap and technical strategy, understanding the business domain and proposing solutions to address customer and business problems, helping scope and analyze product requirements, mentorship, reviewing CRs, writing high-quality code to be an example for the team.

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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