software Development Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

The Amazon India Media tech team is looking for talented engineers for building new technology & businesses that will drive the next wave of growth for Amazon.in & Emerging Markets. We are kicking off a brand new project with strong product strategy(tested out for market potential). We are going to build new services needed for this project from the scratch using latest technologies. This team is starting fresh and you will have the opportunity to see the growth the charter/eco system from scratch. You will be key engineering decision maker and will have opportunity to closely with strong product team.

About the team

Our team also owns products/projects out side Media. We already have strong tenured SDEs from whom you can learn at a much faster pace. We believe in delivering early versions of exciting software quickly and iteratively, to get customer feedback, and use the feedback to make data driven and agile decisions. We rely on our software engineers leveraging their own expertise and perspectives to drive quality into our product.

We love to work with smart people who have a strong sense of ownership and strong engineering mindset.

As part of this team you will be motivated to tackle ambiguous situations with new technologies to rapidly produce prototypes. You outline paths from prototype to product. You are a technical leader for the team. You contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices in the team.You will be working on a wide range of technologies, including AWS EC2, SQS/SNS, DynamoDB Amazon WW platforms, ElastcicSearch, Big Data, Machine Learning, Android, iOS, Amazon Horizonte, JavaScript, React JS to create unique experiences for retail customers. You will get the opportunity to improve business metrics. You will also contribute to reducing latency for customers by reducing the bytes on the wire and adapting the UX based on network bandwidth. You will be part of a team that obsesses about the performance of our customer's experience and enjoy the flexibility to pursue what makes sense. Come enjoy an exploratory and research oriented team working in a fast paced environment, who are always eager to take on big challenges.

Responsibilities

* Be heavily involved with design and product teams to understand needs, propose features, create early prototypes and transform them into exciting end consumer features.
* Architect new end-to-end features that bring shopping innovations.
* Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.
* Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability, extensibility as needed.
* Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes.
* Mentor team members to promote engineering excellence