System Development Engineer II

Amazon; Cambridge, Gillingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a System Development Engineer II, where you will lead front-end development for innovative machine learning products. This role emphasizes using modern JavaScript frameworks and responsive design to enhance user experiences. Collaborate with a talented team to automate and support large-scale infrastructure while utilizing AWS products. If you're passionate about creating efficient, maintainable systems and have a knack for problem-solving, this is the ideal opportunity for you to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale infrastructure automation and deployment.
• Proficiency in modern programming languages like Python or Java.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy technology components to solve complex problems.
• Focus on operational excellence and improve team systems.

Skills

Automating large-scale infrastructure

Programming in Python

Programming in Java

Linux/Unix experience

CI/CD pipelines

AWS products

JavaScript frameworks

Responsive design

Job description

The Amazon Payment Payments (APP) supports multiple payment products and processes millions of transactions every day across numerous countries and payment methods. Over 100 million customers and merchants send tens of billions of dollars moving at light-speed through our systems annually, and use our products on and off Amazon.
We are seeking a talented and innovative System Development Engineer II to join our MAPLE team, a machine learning platform within APP. In this role, you will spearhead front-end development efforts for our MAPLE products, embracing and implementing new technologies and support data platform(s). An ideal candidate will be proficient in modern JavaScript frameworks, have a strong understanding of responsive design, and experience with version control systems.

Key job responsibilities

1. You design, implement, and deploy technology components that solve complex problems generating positive feedback.
2. You have a solid understanding of design approaches (and how to best use them).
3. Your work is consistently of a high quality (e.g., secure, testable, maintainable, low-defects, efficient, etc.) and incorporates best practices. Your team trusts your work.
4. You focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve your team’s systems, making them better and easier to maintain.
5. You have established good working relationships with teammates and peers working on related systems. You recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialogue to resolve them.
6. Your design and implementation (code, change, deployment, etc.) reviews tend to be rapid and uneventful. You provide useful reviews for designs and implementations submitted by others.
7. You are able to confidently train new teammates about your customers, what your team’s systems do, how they are constructed, tested, operate, and how they fit into the bigger picture.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
• Experience building services using AWS products

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with distributed systems at scale
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks and a strong understanding of responsive design

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