Software Development Engineer – Global Talent Management Full Time

1A Market St, Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH1 1DE, UK
Amazon
Want to help design and build a brand new set of apps and a platform forthe future of Talent Management at Amazon, as experienced by hundreds ofthousands of employees? You can help us deliver an awesome employeeexperience, putting the employee at the center of their career. Come bepart of a team that will directly shape and influence the future growthof every employee at Amazon including your own!You will work as a full-stack developer using the latest technologiesincluding Java microservices in a distributed service-orientatedarchitecture, AWS, NoSQL, workflows, to build a responsive JavaScriptweb application (using ECMA5, React and Angular 2). You will still wantto be coding and contributing regularly. This is a hands on role withthe expectation of 50% of your time spent on the code.You will work as part of a sustainable paced agile team and will play atechnical hands on leadership role in your team giving you theresponsibility and authority and autonomy to ensure success. You willhave a system-wide, architectural view of the solutions that you build.You will be involved in every aspect of the process – from ideageneration, business analysis and technical design through to softwaredevelopment using the latest technologies and design patterns. Yoursystems will meet remarkably high standards of performance andreliability, and will operate at massive scale, 24×7.Come join a team full of very intelligent and capable people who comefrom all over the world. Enjoy the chance to work in a relaxed settingwith a good social life. The team based in Edinburgh, Scotland israpidly expanding. Successful candidates will have strong technicalability, a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork andcommunication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in afast-paced environment.The position offers exceptional opportunities for every candidate togrow their technical and non-technical skills. If you are selected, youhave the opportunity to really make a difference to our business byinventing, enhancing and building world class systems, deliveringresults, working on exciting and challenging projects.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS Extensive experience providing technical leadership as a senior engineer. Computer Science Honours degree (2:1 or better) or another technicaldegree or postgraduate study. In lieu of degree, relevant skills andequivalent experience. Demonstrated coding and problem solving skills in at least one modernprogramming language. Strong computer science grounding in a broad range of algorithms and data-structures. Good design pattern knowledge and the ability to pick the rightpattern after understanding the trade offs. Strong written and verbal English communication skills.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Demonstrated best-practice software engineering including Agilemethodologies, TDD, unit testing, refactoring, code reviews, continuousbuild and deployment processes. Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers. Experience operating and maintaining production software. Advanced coding skills (concurrency, profiling and performance optimisation). Designed and built complex systems (architecture, design patterns,reliability and scaling). Web development (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, JQuery, AngularJS, Rubyon Rails) Linux/UNIX (command-line tools, shell scripts, operations) Experience in basic data manipulation and analysis, includingcommand-line tools and scripting. Knowledge of mobile technologies and / or responsive web design.Personal qualities Results oriented and analytical, with a strong customer and business focus. Ability to communicate and discuss technical topics with bothtechnical and business audiences. Highly innovative, self-directed and able to deal well with ambiguous problems. Strong sense of ownership, with a passion for software and continuous learning.In return, we offer a highly competitive salary, and many otherexcellent benefits including healthcare and Stock. At Amazon, employeeshave the opportunity to become owners of the Company. We want employeesto think like owners, and awarding equity provides an ownershipopportunity to our employees. Eligible Amazon and subsidiary employeesreceive Amazon Restricted Stock Units. This is your opportunity todevelop a rewarding career in a unique, passionate and internationalenvironment, work hard, have fun and make history!Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately thatemploying a diverse workforce is central to our success. We makerecruiting decisions based on your experience and skills.All offers are conditional on references, verification of the right towork in the UK, and a successful background screening check. This checkwill include previous employment verification, qualificationverification (if relevant) and a basic criminal check. Further detailsof this policy and procedure will be sent to you along with yourconditional offer. – provided by Dice AGILE, AJAX, ANGULARJS, AWS, BUSINESS ANALYSIS, COMPUTER SCIENCE, DEGREE, HTML, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, JQUERY, LINUX, MOBILE, NOSQL, POSTGRADUATE, REFACTORING, RUBY, RUBY ON RAILS, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, TDD, UNIX, WEB DEVELOPMENT