Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Are you interested in building version 1.0 of a new product? Are you passionate about creating first class online and mobile shopping experiences?

The Amazon Prime Now team is seeking a talented software development engineer to help the development of a confidential new strategic initiative.

This is an early stage initiative with a fast paced, highly collaborative start up like environment inside Amazon. To be successful you need to be flexible and entrepreneurial. You are a true owner - you are passionate about the business and drive relentlessly to optimize and improve our deliverable, and allowing the business to move at a fast pace. You collaborate with UX designers, product managers, technical program managers, and partner teams. You are comfortable with a degree of ambiguity and willing to develop quick proof of concepts, iterate and improve. You create extensible design and easy to maintain solutions with the long term vision in mind.

An ideal candidate will operate at all levels, diving deep into the details while providing strategic inputs for the product. You will work with a team of talented engineers. You communicate effectively with multiple development, quality assurance, product management, and partner teams.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 3+ years professional experience in software development
· Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design and data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
· Experience building scalable distributed systems with service oriented architectures
· Proficiency in more than one modern programming language, e.g. C, C++, Java, or Perl
· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field