Sr. Software Development Engineer
DESCRIPTION
Amazon.com's long-term vision is to enable a seamless global shopping experience for all Amazon customers worldwide on any Amazon website or device, in any language and for any culture. Our goal is to create software that offers customers a unique shopping experience that is tailor-made for their preferences. Amazon INTech Latam team is hiring Software Development Engineers.
About the role: A Software Development Engineer (SDE) at Amazon works to solve local challenges on a global scale, owns their systems end to end and influences the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions of customers around the world. At Amazon an SDE can expect to design flexible and scalable solutions, and work on some of the most complex challenges in large-scale computing by utilizing skills in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming. Joining Amazon gives you the opportunity to work on a development team in one of our many fast-growing organizations.
About you: You're looking for a career where you'll be able to build, deliver, and impress. You'll look at problems holistically, and thrive on the intricate complexity of designing feedback loops and ecosystems.
The INTech Latam Team is hiring Software Development Engineers to work in our Software Development Center in Brazil. We build International extensions and new features of the Amazon.com website for individual countries and creates systems to support Amazon operations. You will learn all about how to design, implement and test highly scalable solutions using AWS cloud platform and its many products, in challenging agile projects, working with best in class professionals.
At Amazon Brazil we value Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in all our job positions, therefore, we act intentionally so that our internal environment reflects the plurality of the businesses we play and the customers we serve.
In Brazil, we have a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion squad, which is formed by representatives from different roles and areas, as we understand that this agenda must have different perspectives and multiple experiences. Our leadership is committed and understands more and more their role in sharing and acting on our leadership principles, with the purpose of ‘Strive to Be Earth's Best Employer’. Understanding our responsibility and our need for change, we are conscientious that ‘Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility’. Our affinity groups are built from and by volunteers from different businesses, and they are an active part of our DE&I strategies definition. Besides that, they act as ambassadors of this agenda, and they will support you from Day1. Remember, at Amazon ‘It’s always Day1’. Our groups are organized in the following fronts: BEN - Black Employee Network, Women@Amazon, Glamazon (LGBTQIA+) and People With Disabilities.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Past experience in being a technical leader and have previous track record in delivering large scale solutions in a very ambiguous environment
- Experience mentoring and training the engineering community on complex technical issues
- Active contributor on teams technical strategy and account for technical tradeoffs that can impact existing applications as well as other applications within Amazon
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, Kotlin, JavaScript, Clojure.
- System Design experience with event-driven and microservices architecture
- Proficiency in spoken and written English
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet timelines with optimal solutions
- A good understanding of Software Development Life-cycle models and a track record of shipping software efficiently. You recognize the difference between building software and shipping software
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline OR Master’s degree in computer science, Math or Physics or related field