Software Development Engineer, Amazon Special Projects | Devices Financial System Automation

Want to change the way millions of people communicate, shop, and have fun? Want to help Amazon bring products like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Alexa devices, Ring and Blink cameras, eero mesh networks and Kindle e-readers to market?

Amazon Special Projects, Devices Financial System Automation team enables customers to buy and engage with Amazon Devices worldwide.

Amazon’s products are in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, and others! Our team’s responsibilities are centered around building highly scalable financial automation systems which is one of the backend building blocks for Amazon’s Devices business.

We are looking for a talented, experienced Software Development Engineer to help expand our solutions globally and build best-in-class new solutions that help us grow the devices business at Amazon scale and speed!

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.

We are constantly learning through programs that are local, regional, and global. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team highly values work-life balance, mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment.

We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.

Key job responsibilities

• Write high quality distributed system software
• Work extensively AWS technologies such as SQS, SNS, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, QLDB, Redshift, Step Functions, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Data Pipelines, and Kinesis
• Launch new, high impact programs that reduce logistics costs or increase unit sales
• Perform development and maintenance of key system features
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence
• Working in an Agile / Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules
• Establish architectural principles, selecting design patterns and mentoring team members on their appropriate application

A day in the life

• Scrum reviews with the team
• Design and develop features which extend our current software, and create new services leveraging AWS technologies
• Full stack development
• Collaborate with others on your team and across the organization
• Help set the direction for the future of Devices solutions

About the team

Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the extreme.

We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds.

If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.

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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ 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
• Solid experience with backend software engineering
• Experience with cross-functional team
30+ days ago