Senior Software Development Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer with established experience in architecting, designing and developing complete technical solutions for complex, ambiguous situations and requirements that has significant business value. Hands on experience in building scalable and extensible web services, using right AWS / cloud technologies and applying appropriate Machine learning techniques is preferred.

If you are a fast learner with strong technical skills and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment with high creativity and great analytical reasoning skills, you would love our team and the challenges we take forward. We are part of the Digital Acceleration organization that owns services that support cataloging, publishing, promoting, marketing, purchasing and payments for Digital businesses that includes, but not limited to, Kindle EBooks, Amazon AppStore, Amazon Music, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Alexa and Audible. Rest assured your work will be highly impactful and visible to Amazon customers and internal stakeholders.

We are working on highly ambitious transformation of our services to automate information extraction using Computer Vision and Machine Learning techniques from structured and unstructured content. We will also build new services to enrich catalog metadata using automated inference of descriptive texts, inappropriate metadata identification and augmentation with external data and signals.

A day in the life

You advice Software Development Managers, Sr. Software Managers, Product Managers and other Engineers on product architecture and technical solves. You provide the architectural and technical vision for the Product / Service and lead the team technically towards the vision. You evaluate multiple technical choices and make right trade-off between short term needs and long term requirements. You mentor team members and raise the bar on high standards with your reviews of their artifacts. You are hands-on and take up development of complex pieces of the architecture and write exemplary code that raises the bar on coding standards and best practices.

Basic Qualifications

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

5+ 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

Preferred Qualifications

5+ 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