SR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER, DISCOVERY TECH

DESCRIPTION Do you want to reach the next level on your career? Do you want new challenges and solve hard problems while using top-notch technologies? Join us and you'll help millions of customers to discover the hottest and best-of-breed products from a multi billion catalog! The Discovery Tech team helps customers discover and engage with new, popular and relevant products across Amazon worldwide.
We do this by combining technology, science, and innovation to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside cutting edge tools for marketers.
You will be responsible for creating and building critical services that automatically generate, target, and optimize Amazon’s cross-category marketing and merchandising.
Through the enablement of intelligent marketing campaigns that leverage machine-learning models, you will help to deliver the best possible shopping experience for Amazon’s customers all over the globe.
We need bright and very talented people to help us fulfil our mission of making Amazon the most loved destination for each customer in the World! We believe in regular feature develop and frequent experimentation, allowing us to continuously improve the customer experience.
You will have the opportunity to explore the many channels Amazon provides for customer outreach and engagement, both onsite and offsite.
As a new team, we carry little tech debt.
We prioritize writing high quality and maintainable code, and build systems that leverage existing tools to provide extensive test coverage across our services.
The team provides a great opportunity to make an outsized impact in a burgeoning space and on fresh or even yet to be built services.
There are few opportunities anywhere to start on a new team and make an immediate impact at this scale.
Come with us and let’s find the best future, together.
Key job responsibilities As a member of our software engineering team you can expect to.
- Solve problems which require novel solutions in low-latency systems - Solve problems that center around scale, across all realms, over hundreds of millions of customers - Write high quality, maintainable code - Perform peer code-reviews and contribute to technical designs - Integrate and collaborate with applied science experts specialized in machine learning recommendation models - Think outside the box when it comes to innovating for the customer.
Our team is looking for fresh ideas to engage with customers across both internal and external mediums - Learn and grow from a talented group of individuals within our team and within our sister teams - Mentor new members as we continue to add to our footprint and scope We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations.
Barcelona, B, ESP BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team - Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems - Experience in professional, non-internship software development - Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design - Experience in development in the last 3 years PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor's 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 Amazon is an equal opportunities employer.
We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.
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We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.
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