At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The intense focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – customer obsession is part of our company DNA.
The Quality Technology & Solutions (QTS) team is an integral part of the EU Quality organization. Although we primarily serve the EU region, our innovative solutions and strategies have a global impact. We are a diverse and dynamic team comprising Software Development Engineers (SDEs), Business Intelligence Engineers (BIEs), Data Analysts, and Process Experts. Our mission is to design and implement cutting-edge technological solutions that enhance operational efficiency, drive quality assurance, ensure inventory control, and reduce concessions. By leveraging advanced technologies and data-driven methodologies, we aim to deliver impactful solutions that support Amazon's commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction.
As a Software Development Engineer on QTS team, you would work on the development of next age metric reporting, dive deep, business review and audit platforms.
Key job responsibilities
Key responsibilities, but not limited to, would be:
•Design and develop creative solutions to complex engineering problems.
•Effectively mentor junior engineers, help to maintain appropriate unit test coverage, code documentation, software structure and support
•Own and deliver end to end key initiatives, maintaining effective communication with management and stakeholders
•Identify, evaluate and suggest mitigation strategies for risks during design
•Contribute to system design, process and development standards documentation
•Deliver high quality code on time as part of a cross-functional team.
•Contribute to team discussions around system component design, improvement and integration.
•Design and develop high performance, test-driven code.
•Work with and maintain a large existing code base as well as new components; maintain production code and contribute to deployment and QA processes.
A day in the life
On a typical day within the EU QTS team you would
•Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to design and build innovative features in a large distributed computing environment.
•Build systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
•Be able to design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
•Create solutions to run predictions on systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
•Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- 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
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 of AWS tech stack – specially Route53, CloudFront, Lambda@edge, Cognito, Appsync, GraphQL, Aurora MySQL, DynamoDB and CDK
- Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript and NodeJS
- Programming experience with Python
- Professional experience with large data sets during their entire lifecycle: data ingestion, processing/cleansing, storage, analysis. Any previous experience with AWS services for Data Engineering or similar would be a plus.
- Professional experience with any of the following machine learning techniques: regression and classification, neural networks, decision trees, reinforcement learning, large language models or other machine learning techniques
