Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems (ASCS) builds the systems that host and run the worlds largest eCommerce products catalog. Our high scale distributed systems process hundreds of millions of updates on the billions of products to power the online buying experience for hundreds of millions of Amazons customers worldwide so they can find discover and buy anything they want 24x7x365.
As part of ASCS Amazons Selection Contribution Platform (SCP) team are looking for a passionate talented and supersmart software engineer who innovates loves solving hard problems and never takes no for an answer to join our growing team in London. Central to Amazons retail business our high scale distributed systems hold the largest product catalog in the world and manage data ingestion and processing from millions of external data contributors Amazons own retail catalog and Amazon internal customers including Kindle Prime Video and Alexa. We drive Amazons growth by delivering innovative business and technical solutions that help drive up product selection for our customers and continue to facilitate year on year growth in this dynamic fast paced ever growing business. We exist on the cutting edge of technical possibilities pushing the boundaries of architectural thinking and distributed system design; We leverage the best of technology from across the industry use the latest cloud computing technologies from AWS where we help drive innovation for the benefit of Amazon and third party customers alike. Come and join our journey...
Key job responsibilities
As a software engineer in Amazon you are expected to have technical ownership of your designs and services and influence good coding practices among your peers. Responsibilities include design code review test fix research deploy and maintain services and code in Amazon cloud production environments. Successful candidates will be strong developers who can prioritize well develop at the highest standards in the industry deal with ambiguous and non explored problem domains and have a consistent track record of delivery.
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including objectoriented design
Strong experience in architecting and building multithreaded distributed systems
Strong knowledge of data structures algorithms big O analysis and designing for performance scalability and availability
Outstanding problemsolving abilities and a clear commitment to making Amazon a great place to work
Masters degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers
Handson expertise in many disparate technologies typically ranging from frontend user interfaces through to backend systems and all points in between
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