Job Information
Amazon Software Development Engineer II, Amazon in Chennai, TennesseeIndia
Description
Digital Catlaog team owns services supporting publishing and purchase of Digital content, including Kindle EBooks, Amazon AppStore for Android, Amazon MP3, and Amazon Instant Video.
You will be joining a team working on scalable web services using cloud technologies. Your work will be highly visible to Amazon customers and internal stakeholders.
As a Software Development Engineer, you will provide technical leadership to other engineers in the team and also contribute to the design and development of high-scale web services and workflows. You will also influence the technical direction of other teams in the Digital Content Platform organization. We are solving some very interesting and complex problems in the next couple of years, and there is a great deal of opportunity for a creative technical leader to innovate in the space and drive product direction. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences and backend web services, strong technical skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, high creativity, and great analytical reasoning skills.
Key job responsibilities
The candidate will be responsible to analyze, design and develop the products for the DA Catalog team.
The candidate will have opportunity to lead, mentor the junior team members.
The candidate will be responsible for the routing on-call activities, reduce the Op-Ex goals, maintain the healthy pipeline.
The candidate will be responsible to deliver the product with right quality with minimal or zero defects.
The candidate will be responsible to test and deliver the product, do that automation if needed.
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications
3+ 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