Amazon Software Development Engineer Professional Services 

United Kingdom, England, London 

464031343

As a Software Dev Engineer, you will lead the building and improving of backend and frontend services to exceed our user expectations around usability and performance. You operate at all levels, diving deep into the details while providing inputs to product design and vision. You will design and implement features that deliver benefits at scale.You will work closely with product managers, UX designers, senior and peer-level software engineers to deliver complex products and features. You will own quality and deployment for your code. You will mentor junior team members to improve their skills and raise the bar on software development best practices. You are expected to think like an owner, driving the right solutions in terms of quality and breadth of functionality. The ideal candidate is a creative technology leader with both breadth and depth of relevant technologies. This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills. Core to the role is to be able to innovate by defining solutions that can scale and deliver. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with agile methodologies, and show bias for action. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that haven’t been solved at scale before. Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact in an engaging environment.Key job responsibilities
* Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and build innovative solutions to complex problems
* Utilize cutting-edge technologies to build and deploy deploy distributed applications, maintaining high expectations for application reliability and resilience
* Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems
* Work in an agile environment to delivery high-quality softwareA day in the lifeDiverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life Balance

- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations