Software Development Engineer , Ordering

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon seeks a passionate Software Development Engineer to join the Ordering team, where you will tackle complex challenges and create scalable solutions for global systems. The ideal candidate should have significant software development experience, focusing on design excellence, efficiency, and maintainability while contributing to innovative projects impacting millions worldwide.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience required.
• Experience with design or architecture of systems is crucial.
• Familiarity with at least one programming language needed.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable solutions for large-scale distributed systems.
• Work on real-world problems impacting millions of customers.
• Maintain engineering excellence in software quality and performance.

Skills

Software Development

Design Patterns

Algorithms

Object Oriented Programming

Reliability

Scaling Systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer , Ordering

Are you passionate about enabling millions of customers around to world buy anything, anywhere, anytime? Dealing with large scale distributed systems, orchestrating the entire retail ordering workflow?
We, the Ordering team, need strong software development engineers, able to dive deep into abstract problems and come up with innovative designs to help us continuously make our platform ready for our current and future challenges.

You need to be an active practitioner of engineering excellence: keeping a high bar for quality, consistency, maintainability, efficiency, security and all the other things that make great software great. You will work with the best of Amazon to build systems that accelerates our engineering and product teams.

SDEs at Amazon work on real world problems on a global scale, own their systems end to end and influence the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions customers around the world. At Amazon an SDE can expect to design flexible and scalable solutions, and work on some of the most complex challenges in large-scale computing by utilizing your skills in data structures, algorithms, and object oriented programming. Come to Amazon and work in one of our teams in the eCommerce services group.

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
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

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