Job Information
Amazon SDE II, Amazon Key in Barcelona, Spain
Description
Amazon Key allows us to securely deliver packages directly into customers' garages. Customers have embraced Amazon Key to protect their deliveries. We are continuously improving and delighting our rapidly growing customer base.
We are seeking motivated, talented individuals who want to make an impact on the Amazon Key delivery experience. You will work on challenging technical problems and learn along the way. Specifically, we are looking for passionate, entrepreneurial, hardworking Software Development Engineers with experience building high-performance, highly-available, and scalable distributed systems to help drive this mission.
Key job responsibilities
You're a seasoned engineer with rich experience in designing, developing, and supporting multiple software intensive systems. You will be successful if you:
Have a strong sense of ownership and customer focus
Care about code quality and readability
Are comfortable working with data structures as much as discussing software development processes with your peers
Get inspired by collecting product and system metrics, and by proposing improvements
Persevere when troubleshooting build, deployment or live issues
Take code review feedback gracefully and provide your feedback with abundance
Love to see your code deployed, and want to see it happening more often
A day in the life
Collaborating with project teams across various themes like core platform development, software compliance, and financial optimization.
Engaging in technical discussions and brainstorming sessions to devise software strategies.
Active participation in our development sprints, reviewing code, and ensuring the implementation of best practices.
Interacting with stakeholders, understanding their needs, and translating them into technical solutions.
Mentoring team members (SDE1), providing guidance, and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
Regularly reviewing and optimizing existing systems and processes for better efficiency and performance.
Basic Qualifications
Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Knowledge on usage of Amazon Web Services like DynamoDB, ECS, EC2, Fargate, Redshift, CloudWatch, AWS Step functions and so on.
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