Join us in revolutionizing Amazons HR tech: help transform our widelyused Promote tool through an exciting greenfield project leveraging AWS Step Functions for nextgen orchestration!
The Promotions Intelligence team (Pint) part of Global Talent Management & Compensation (GTMC) is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join the engineering team in Edinburgh as part of a strategic investment to build technology that will enable Amazon to adopt the most scientific approach to talent management.
Our team builds intelligent solutions with a consumergrade user experience using science to manage the performance of Amazons 1M employees. Our engineering scope includes UX design microservices frontend big data and ML enabling Amazon to retain its Day One culture while growing its talent.
As a Software Developer youll join a team to design and develop products/services for the Connected Talent Management teams 3year vision. If youre passionate about scalable highavailability web architectures using AWS this is for you. Youll contribute to fullstack dev following agile SDLC to solve ambiguous customer problems. Youll collaborate across the org to simplify solutions for measuring managing and maintaining Amazons workforce performance.
Key job responsibilities
Amazon has a collaborative purposeful and enthusiastic environment where we Work Hard Have Fun Make History. On a typical day engineers might deep dive to root cause a customer issue implement a new feature investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way consult with the top engineers at Amazon or discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues.
A software engineer at Amazon will have technical ownership of designs and services and will influence good coding practices among peers. Responsibilities will include designing coding reviewing testing fixing researching deploying and maintaining services and code in Amazon cloud production environments. Successful candidates will be experienced software engineers who can prioritize well are good team players develop at a high standard can deal with new and ambiguous problem domains and have a consistent track record of delivery.
A day in the life
At Amazon software engineers take ownership of solution design turn it into code and deliver it on schedule using appropriate technologies and best practices. They collaborate across teams to build new features services and applications. They are also responsible for maintaining and running the software they own including dependencies and are be part of an oncall rotation to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
About the team
The Promotions Intelligence team in Edinburgh UK is led by a manager who was previously a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon. The team is deeply committed to optimizing the engineer experience using the latest technologies (including GenAI) and delivering highquality solutions while maintaining a good worklife balance.
Experience (noninternship) in professional software development
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including objectoriented design
Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle including coding standards software architectures code reviews source control management continuous deployments testing and operational excellence
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
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