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Senior Software Engineers
Software Engineers
£ 25 – 70,000 Edinburgh, Scotland
Fancy a start-up with 41 million active customer accounts? A place where you’ll work with exceptional people and will do exciting, staggering things, faster, better and more often than you ever imagined possible. A place where breakthrough technologies and features transform the online experience and where risk-taking isn’t just encouraged - it’s mandatory. Cool, or what?
Amazon, one of the most innovative, entrepreneurial success stories of the past decade, is coming to Scotland. Vibrant and young, we are continuing to transform the retail customer experience across the globe. A pool of outstanding engineers, whose remit is to look to the future without constraints, has underpinned Amazon’s growth and development.
We are establishing a new Development Centre in Edinburgh and are looking to build a world-class team there to help drive our business into the next decade of this new century. It’ll be a place where those who can will dare to make bold, dramatic strides forward, delighting millions of customers through their creativity and technical skills
We need truly exceptional software engineers with entrepreneurial spirit who are ready for a bigger and more challenging role. If you are outperforming all your current peers, have over 5 years’ (for the senior posts) or 2+ years (for the others) of broad real-world software development experience, and think it's time for something better; you’ll want to talk to us.
We're offering an extraordinary opportunity to be a part of a small team driving the evolution of e-commerce. You’ll help create industry-leading features, which will go before a massive audience on Amazon's websites. The team will own the business and technology side of features developed. You will be involved in absolutely every aspect of the process – from idea generation, business analysis and technical design through to front, middle and back-tier software development across a variety of architectures and technologies. Your systems will need to meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability, and will need to operate at massive scale, 24x7. As one of the few initial employees you'll also have a unique opportunity to participate in starting up an office. Ideally, you will have outstanding expertise in OO development in C++ or Java, an excellent problem-solving brain, good understanding of a broad range of algorithms and data structures, and a strong quantitative mindset (preferably with some computational complexity and statistical knowledge). You will be highly pragmatic - both a thinker and a do-er; we want to use technology to solve real-world problems expediently, not play architecture astronaut. A strong UNIX background (preferably Linux) with good understanding of OS fundamentals, database skills and experience with large-scale multi-tiered distributed systems are also highly desirable.
If you are ready for your next challenge - Please apply online to www.amazondc.com or for more
information call Linda at Obvious on 0870 046 8080.
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