Software Development Engineer, Flow Foundations WMO

Software Development Engineer, Flow Foundations WMO

Are you interested in shaping the languages and tools used to build the online Amazon store? Do you want to help Amazon store builders innovate faster?

Join us as we are building the authoring tools to deliver app and website shopping experiences that millions of Amazon customers use every day.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to help develop programming languages used by store builders to define customer experiences on the mobile app and retail website. You will collaborate with multiple principal and senior engineers across a large cross-section of the technical stack to propose and drive cross-system designs and implementations. There is ample opportunity for growth due to the high visibility and impactful work, and presence of senior engineering talent for guidance and mentorship. This role provides you with autonomy and ownership of decisions, working backwards directly from customers.

Key job responsibilities

1. You define new language APIs and develop new language frameworks including transpilers to other programming languages.
2. You take ownership, discussing and delivering on deep technical details with other engineers on the team and across partner teams, collaborating with them to solve challenging problems.
3. You create plans, communicate requirements, negotiate priorities, and clarify what success looks like.
4. You define, deliver, and/or implement a variety of high quality, correct, customer focused technical solutions.
5. You provide clear and concise verbal and written communication.
6. You facilitate the dialogue, asking productive questions, providing recommendations, and fostering a shared understanding to identify risks and meet business needs.
7. You participate in reviews of your peers’ work and provide useful and actionable input when submitted.
8. You raise the bar on operational excellence while meeting/exceeding system SLAs (e.g. Build Speed, artifact size).

A day in the life
This is a wide-ranging role that involves partnering closely with other technical leaders, engaging with Amazon store builders and influencing program leaders. It requires leading execution and delivery by a specialized team that is at the center of Amazon’s next-generation architecture. One day you may be driving a capability design, and another you may be leading delivery for a complex project, or participating in discussions to improve the team’s operations, then engaging in an important operational issue that is impacting the health of the Store, influencing your team to make the best decision for the customers.

About the team
This team builds authoring tools and languages used by store builders to create shopping experiences for customers on Amazon’s online stores.

Minimum Qualifications

1. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
2. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
4. 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
5. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

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