Software Development Engineer - Customer Experience Team - Goodreads

Job description

DESCRIPTION

With over 80 million members, Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations. As a Top 100 web destination, our mission is to help people find and share books they love. Goodreads members can discover new books by seeing what their friends and members of the community are reading or by using the Goodreads Book Recommendation Engine. Our platform also helps more than 220,000 authors to connect with readers. Goodreads is a subsidiary of Amazon, Inc.

The Customer Experience team at Goodreads is responsible for building and improving features that delight our customers. We work with customer reviews, emails, tools for authors and librarians, and more! We're looking for an engineer who likes working close to the end user experience to help us tackle projects that'll directly affect millions of our customers.
As a Software Development Engineer, you will develop customer-facing experiences in a fast paced environment. You will provide hands-on coding & development, and should be comfortable working in an environment where code is pushed into production multiple times in a day.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will develop customer-facing experiences in a fast paced environment. You will provide hands-on coding & development, and should be comfortable working in an environment where code is pushed into production multiple times in a day.
The Revenue team at Goodreads is responsible for the advertisement, book deals and affiliate sales technologies. We strive to offer authors, publishers, and users a unique place for book sales promotions catered to their unique preferences and tastes.

As a Software Development Engineer in the Revenue team, you will:
1. Design, build and own highly distributed and scalable services that will help targeting book promotions and sponsored content to our customers.
2. Develop customer-facing experiences to promote sponsored content solutions to our customers.
3. Work in a fast-paced environment where code is pushed into production multiple times in a day.
4. Have the opportunity to closely work with a great team of software developers
You are the ideal candidate if you are equally comfortable writing code and defining technical architecture. You must have a deep understanding of scalable, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, full-stack web development, and application design, as well as flexibility and a passion for learning new skills. You will be expected to work in a heterogeneous environment of different languages and technologies and bring flexibility, speed, and quality to our team. The successful candidate will thrive in a culture of experimentation and innovation, but also have a proven track record of delivering results to solve challenging problems.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· At least 1 + years of industry experience.
· A BS in Computer Science or a related degree
· At least 1 + years expertise in coding & software engineering in Java, C++, or Ruby.
· At least 1+ years expertise in front-end development using CSS, HTML & javascript
· At least 1 + years in working on large scale data sets using SQL & NoSQL technologies