Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Are you looking for a challenge? Would you like to use your engineering background to create a system that introduces positive changes in the workplace around the world?
Amazon Connections is an innovative program that gives Amazonians an effective way to share feedback and help shape the future of the company. By leveraging machine learning and employee data, our systems create a continuous feedback mechanism to raise the bar on leadership and introduce positive changes in the workplace. Our goal is to help develop leaders who earn trust, remove barriers to excellence and make Amazon an inspiring place to work.

A commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance services and architectures require exceptional technical expertise. Work in our platform will provide the opportunity to contribute to a complete vertical stack of SOA based systems with multiple user intefaces. You will own decisions from design to rollout and see the results of your efforts.

Developers in this position will use a variety of mainstream and open source technologies like Java, Linux, Javascript, AWS, as well as other in-house Amazon secret sauce. Team members are expected to have strong object-oriented design and programming skills. Some scripting, SQL and data modeling is helpful.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
· At least 3+ years work experience in a related field
· Demonstrated proficiency with Java, C++, or similar modern programming languages
· Solid experience in data structures and algorithms
· Experience with non-traditional data stores such as DynamoDB, AWS Redshift or ElasticSearch