Software Development Engineer - EC2 Console at Amazon

DESCRIPTION

• The EC2 Visual Platform team is responsible for the EC2 Console Web Interface which is used by customers to manage all aspects of their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. The major focus of the team is to streamline the user experience for customers managing small to very large pools of resources. Engineers in our teams have a strong sense of ownership and drive to innovate and have a resounding impact in how we develop and deliver software at such a large scale.
• As an experienced engineer in this team, you will play an active role in developing high quality software designs & solutions to complex problems to deliver great front end user experiences to customers. You are consistently successful at working autonomously and in delivering software. You work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant. You write code that is easy to understand and your solutions are pragmatic. You regularly evaluate and improve your teams internal development processes.
• As an Amazonian, you’ll enjoy interacting with some of the talented engineers in our industry through breakfast talks and demos, internal communities and extensive training material that span all aspects of our business. You’ll also enjoy flexible working hours within small sized teams and the high level of autonomy that our engineers operate under. We follow the DevOps model and so our teams are empowered to own the full development and support life-cycle of their systems. Our teams operate like start-ups in that they own and drive a portfolio of services which includes everything from developing the long term vision for their products through to deciding on what technologies and development methodology or processes to follow.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience
• 3+ years of industry experience in a software development environment
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Java, C#, Python, Javascript, Scala, Kotlin

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals
• Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative applications
• Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities.
• Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Excellent written communication and verbal agility are strong assets.
• Working knowledge of one or more Javascript frameworks e.g. JQuery, React
• Deep understanding of the web technologies including HTTP, HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Designing and implementing for a visually impaired users
• Utilize user interface design patterns to solve business problems with highly accessible and usable web applications.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and back-end programming
• Working knowledge of AWS products and technologies
• Between 2 and 5 years of practical experience building production web applications