We are on a journey to build something new - a new green field business on Amazon and in the process, disrupt the way automobiles are sold! Come join our team and build new discovery and shopping products that connect customers with their vehicle of choice. We're looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to join our team of product managers, designers, and engineers to design, and build innovative automotive-shopping experiences for our customers.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced engineer to design and implement the technology for a new Amazon business. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to design, implement and deliver end-to-end solutions. You will be an engineer on the team to support the foundation of a new development team, using your engineering experience to build an culture of innovation, quality and customer obsession.
As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will design and create software designs and implementation for medium-to-large scale projects across all areas of this new automotive shopping initiative. You will work directly with creative, product management and program management to understand and define the requirements and apply your technical expertise to solve difficult software problems in a fast-paced environment. You'll design and build software and systems for novel customer experiences, AWS services, and large-scale back-end web services, all with the goal of delivering a seamless experience to the customer.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and build full-stack solutions. Your solutions will enable delivery of innovative automotive experiences and experiences across devices and web.
- Use your problem-solving skills, collaborating with creative and technical teams, thinking-big and inventing and simplifying to solve challenges.
- Deliver novel customer experiences by developing solutions which include innovative UX strategies, AWS services and large scale back-end services.
- Collaborate with teams across Amazon to integrate and optimize existing ad products to take advantage of Amazon's scale and reach.
- Leverage your technical ability, excellent organizational and communication skills to build and solve challenging and ambiguous problems. You'll use your ingenuity and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
- Provide guidance to and mentor other SDEs in the team.
- Be responsible for high quality bar, ensuring quality design reviews and robust engineering practices for automated testing, code coverage and full CI/CD pipelines.
A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will create software designs and implementation for medium-to-large scale projects across all areas of this new automotive shopping initiative. You will work directly with creative, product management and program management to understand and define requirements and apply your technical expertise to solve difficult software problems in a fast-paced environment. You'll design and build software and systems for novel customer experiences, AWS services, and large-scale back-end web services, all with the goal of delivering a seamless experience to the customer.
About the team
This role is one of the first on a newly formed team with a vision to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers better convenience and more selection. We’re collaborating with other experienced teams at Amazon to define the future of how customers research and shop for cars online.
Interested in building something new? Be one of the first people to join our newly formed team with a mission to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers better convenience and more selection. We’re collaborating with other teams around Amazon to build the future of how customers research and shop for cars online.- 6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 6+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 6+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelor's degree- 6+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
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