Technical Lead/Senior SDE, Amazon Stores

Technical Lead/Senior SDE, Amazon Stores

DESCRIPTION

Scale at Amazon is, well, really big. There are few companies out there building at our scale and complexity, and even fewer in Europe. As a Senior Software Development Engineer (Senior SDE), you'll be part of a small group of diverse peers that make the Amazon magic happen. With ownership of existing software and building new products, you will lead the design and implementation of large-scale efforts from the technical perspective.

You'll not only code, but also drive the direction of the software architecture and team practices. Our Senior SDEs enjoy a great deal of autonomy and are looked up to as technical leaders. In addition to owning the architecture of a larger product, you will lead code reviews, mentor engineers, and drive important technical decisions.

Opportunities are available in Madrid and the following are some of the teams hiring for Amazon Stores in Spain:

- Kindle Books Tech team is building a 200+ person tech hub in Spain, focused on improving and transforming the customer purchase journey including Search, Books Detail page, Intelligent customer recommendations & new Store and purchase experiences.
- Amazon Business (AB) aims to become the most customer-centric provider of products and procurement services for business, government, and industry in the world.
- International Technology (InTech) group owns the discovery and delivery of Amazon's cutting-edge engineering to all the varied customers and cultures of the world.
- Payroll Tech innovates for customers in Payroll by building services like Anytime Pay, allowing employees to withdraw pay as soon as they've earned it.

Check out this link for more information on Amazon Stores and our tech hub in Spain: https://amazon.jobs/content/en/teams/international-stores/amazon-stores-tech-emea

Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Software Development Engineer, you will be:

1. solving problems that center around scale, across all realms, over hundreds of millions of customers;
2. owning the software architecture and technical designs;
3. writing high quality, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews;
4. providing technical leadership and expertise;
5. partnering with other teams such as Applied science;
6. mentoring new members as we continue to add to our footprint and scope.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in development in the last 3 years

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

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.