Software Development Engineer, Digital Acceleration

Software Development Engineer, Digital Acceleration

Digital Catalog team owns services supporting publishing and purchase of Digital content, including Kindle EBooks, Amazon AppStore for Android, Amazon MP3, and Amazon Instant Video.

You will be joining a team working on scalable web services using cloud technologies. Your work will be highly visible to Amazon customers and internal stakeholders.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will provide technical leadership to other engineers in the team and contribute to the design and development of high-scale web services and workflows. You will influence the technical direction of other teams in the Digital Content Platform organization. We are solving complex problems in the next couple of years, offering opportunities for innovation and product influence. A successful candidate will have experience in developing customer-facing and backend web services, strong technical skills, results-driven motivation, creativity, and analytical reasoning skills.

Key job responsibilities

1. Analyze, design, and develop products for the DA Catalog team.
2. Lead and mentor junior team members.
3. Manage on-call activities, optimize operational expenses, and maintain a healthy pipeline.
4. Deliver high-quality products with minimal or zero defects.
5. Test and deliver products, automating processes as needed.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience in system design or architecture, including patterns, reliability, and scaling.
• 3+ years of experience supporting Video Games development, release, or live operations.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience with full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

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