Software Development Engineer III, RISC

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join the Regulatory Intelligence, Safety, and Compliance (RISC) engineering team. The role involves designing and building scalable systems, debugging technical problems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will play a key role in shaping the customer experience on one of the world's largest platforms, ensuring product safety and compliance, and influencing the direction of upcoming technologies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experienced as a mentor or tech lead.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Java

Object-oriented programming

System architecture

Technical problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Are you interested in joining a team that safeguards and enhances the buying experience of Amazon customers worldwide while empowering sellers worldwide to build the most customer-centric marketplace on Earth? Our team leverages a host of technologies—including machine learning, data mining, big data analytics, cloud computing, and highly scalable distributed systems—to support scalable global transactions every day.

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 collaborate with a team of talented software, data, and machine learning engineers to design, develop, and manage highly scalable distributed systems. These systems are engineered to ensure high availability, low latency, and seamless scalability—safeguarding customers and ensuring product compliance. Your work will contribute to building the world's most trusted data platform for all safety and compliance information related to products and supply 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

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ 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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