Software Dev Engineer 2, IES Prime

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London
10 months ago
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IES Prime is building a team to take Prime experience of customers to the next level by building capabilities that are relevant for Prime as well as non-Prime customers in IN and other EMs. Our Development team plays a pivotal role in this program, with the mission to build a comprehensive solution for the India Prime business. This is a rare opportunity to be part of a team that will be responsible for building a successful, sustainable and strategic business for Amazon Prime and to expand the coverage of recurring payments for Prime in India and take it to new emerging markets.


The ideal candidate will be instrumental in shaping the product direction and will be actively involved in defining key product features that impact the business. You will work with Sr. and Principal Engineers at Amazon Prime to evolve the design and architecture of the products owned by this team. You will be responsible to set up and hold a high software quality bar besides providing technical direction to a highly technical team of Software Engineers.


As part of this team you will work to ensure Amazon.in Prime experience is seamless and has the best shopping experience. It’s a great opportunity to develop and enhance experiences for Mobile devices first. You will work on analyzing the latency across the various Amazon.in pages using RedShift, DynamoDB, S3, Java, and Spark. You will get the opportunity to code on almost all key pages on the retail website, building features and improving business metrics. You will also contribute to reducing latency for customers by reducing the bytes on 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 flexibility to pursue what makes sense. Come enjoy an exploratory and research-oriented team of Cowboys working in a fast-paced environment, who are always eager to take on big challenges.

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
- 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) 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


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