Wren is an exciting new team in Amazon, responsible for creative management within Amazon. This team owns critical infrastructure that supports our global advertising business from the advertisers' point of view, supporting a range of image, video and audio ad programs.
The team is seeking a talented and passionate software development engineer to join our welcoming and friendly team, based in our beautiful Edinburgh office.
You will work as part of a small agile team, supporting and further developing our creative management services.
As an engineer, you will be involved in every aspect of the process - from idea generation & technical design through to development & deployment - giving you a real sense of ownership. We build systems which meet high standards of performance & reliability, and operate at scale.
You will have the freedom and encouragement to explore your own ideas and the reward of seeing your contributions benefit millions of Amazon customers worldwide.
Amazon is a place where builders can build. We're looking for engineers who can delight customers by continually learning and inventing. From day one, you'll be working with, and supported by experienced engineers.
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 contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Knowledge of algorithms, data-structures, efficiency, concurrency, performance optimization.
- Experience in cloud computing and distributed architectures.
- Experience of designing and building high availability systems that scale.
- Experience in data manipulation and analysis, including command-line tools and scripting.
- Experience providing technical leadership.
- Experience of mentoring and training other engineers.