Software Dev Engineer II, Global Transportation Technology Services

Amazon
London
1 year ago
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GTTS (Global Transportation Technology Services) builds products that help Amazon run the world's largest transportation network, using cutting-edge technologies and machine learning, all running on AWS. We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology, loves solving customer problems, and delivers the high quality work that we expect for critical systems at Amazon. In GTTS we embody the culture of a scale-up but still assume the responsibility of building and running products at the scale and criticality of Amazon. We follow agile development practices, working closely with customers, failing fast, and continually looking for new ideas from within and without Amazon. We proactively deprecate legacy systems to reduce the burden of technical debt, and regularly develop new-greenfield-products. As a SDE in GTTS, you will work on challenging engineering problems, processing large datasets, and building products that are performant, scalable, and robust to support critical transportation processes. You build web applications that delight our customers, and complex data pipelines to process the data that serves them. We will give you the space to explore new technologies and approaches, and apply them to customer problems. We build products that solve customer problems and have a direct (financial) impact on the transportation network. We always work backwards from the customer. As a SDE, you provide technical leadership at Amazon. You help establish technical standards and drive Amazon’s overall technical architecture, engineering practices, and methodologies. You think globally when building systems, ensuring Amazon builds high performing, scalable systems that work well together. You are hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level designs. In GTTS we operate the products that we build. During your on-call rotation, you will provide front-line support if any critical issues arise with the team's products. Key job responsibilities - Owning end-to-end delivery (from design through release) of major features - working with AWS technologies such as Lambda, ECS Fargate, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, EMR - building customer-facing applications and APIs - building data pipelines using Spark Scala that process Tb of data per day - working with customers to understand the business context of new features - contributing to design reviews and code reviews - participating in operational support for our products by joining a regular on-call rotation - driving reliability and process improvements - participating in regular hackathons to bring new ideas to GTTS About the team GTTS is a diverse and growing team distributed across the globe. We innovate by working closely with our customers in operations, and gaining a deep understanding of their problems and needs. We are a multidisciplinary team with product, engineering and science talents, committed to solving some of the most complex problems in transportation space. Each individual in our team feels safe to share their point of view at all levels and we encourage people to take some risks and challenge themselves. Basic Qualifications - 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 designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems - Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers 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 - Several years of professional software development experience 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. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates. Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visithttps://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations.

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