About the position
Ever wondered what's involved in owing a key feature on Amazon's websites across the globe that is actively used by hundreds of millions of customers? Does the opportunity of building and supporting the scale of business at Amazon fascinate you? If you answered yes, the Amazon Lists team is looking for engineers like you! Customers think about shopping anywhere and anytime - while making breakfast, while driving home, at work, in the bus. They create lists for their personal use, to share with friends and family and to inspire other customers discover the millions of products Amazon has to offer. We strive to find new and contextually-relevant places to offer List functionality to continuously improve the shopping experience for our customers. This Software development position with Amazon Lists is a fit for someone who enjoys and thrives owning low latency, highly available stacks/services requiring strong problem-solving skills, has a solid computer science foundation, knowledge of backend design patterns, APIs and takes pride in operations excellence. Successful candidates must also be innovative, flexible, self-directed, and able to design and write high-performance, reliable, maintainable code. This role requires the ability to creatively deal with ambiguity, be data-driven and juggle cross-organization complexity. If you enjoy working in a dynamic environment to deliver world class mission critical systems, this may be the career opportunity for you!
Responsibilities
- Work on front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node
- Utilize JavaScript frameworks such as Angular and React
- Work with AWS offerings such as EC2, ELB, DynamoDB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, Cloudwatch
- Design and architecture of new and existing systems focusing on design patterns, reliability, and scaling
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Nice-to-haves
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Benefits
- Equity and sign-on payments may be provided as part of a total compensation package
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
