Software Development Engineer, Sorting Hat - Candidate Exploration

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  • Amazon
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Job summary

Come join the Recruiting Engine exploration development team who's mission is to help applicants explore Amazon jobs and teams around the world. Our products will run at every stage of the recruitment and career journey, and it's the perfect time to join the team as we prepare to scaling our products globally. You will innovate with the latest technologies to fairly match candidates to the best job for them. If you are passionate about people, engineering, science and having a positive effect on millions of people's lives then this is the job for you!

Key job responsibilities

Successful candidates will have strong technical ability, a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

We are looking for Software Development Engineers who can delight our customers by continually learning and inventing. Our ideal candidate is an experienced Software Development Engineer who has a track-record of performing analysis and applying statistical techniques to solve real business problems, who has great leadership and communication skills, and who is motivated to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. The position offers an exceptional opportunity to grow your technical and non-technical skills and make a real difference to Amazonians worldwide.

The position offers exceptional opportunities for every candidate to grow their technical and non-technical skills. If you are selected, you have the opportunity to really make a difference to people's lives in our business by inventing, enhancing and building world class systems, delivering results, working on exciting and challenging projects.

A day in the life

As a the Software Development Engine for Recruiting Engine Exploration team, you will join a team of circa six development engineers and scientists to innovate for our customers, who are candidates of Amazon jobs and our recruiting teams around the world.

You will innovate with a wide range of technologies, programming languages and systems, to deliver innovative product solutions. You will have the freedom and encouragement to explore your own ideas and the reward of seeing your contributions benefit millions of customers worldwide.

About the team

Join a team full of talented people who come from all over the world. Enjoy the chance to work in a relaxed setting with a good social life. The team, primarily based in Edinburgh, Scotland, is rapidly expanding.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in a quantitative/technical discipline such as Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics

· Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

· Non-internship professional software development experience

· Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

· Prior professional experience of software development and a solid grounding in Computer Science, including algorithms, data structures, operating systems, programming languages and distributed systems.

· Experience with modern software development practices including automated testing, refactoring, continuous integration and continuous deployment.

· Experience leading the delivery of large, cross-team projects.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

· Experience analysing business and operational metrics.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience designing, building and operating distributed systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling).

· Full stack experience, including frontend web development (JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS) · Linux/UNIX (command-line tools, shell scripts, operations)

· Advanced coding skills (concurrency, profiling and performance optimisation).

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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