Software Development Engineer (Madrid)

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Come join Amazon's International Technology org (INTech) team at Amazon's development center in Madrid, Spain. We are searching for a smart, energetic, curious, and self-disciplined Software Development Engineers to define and deliver our efforts for our current and future Customers.

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company, and INTech owns defining and delivering Amazon's cutting-edge engineering to customers and cultures across Europe. We do this by developing our own customer-facing features, services and platforms based on custom European needs, and through partnerships with other Amazon technical teams around the world. Our work spans a deep technology stack from front-end customer experience to back-end service technology and has high visibility to senior leadership, with small teams delivering highly significant projects.

We are developing software to improve the Customer Experience on Amazon's EU websites and apps and to evolve our back-end services, tools and platforms to better support Amazon's EU businesses. Projects span the definition of new customer-facing features, programs and services to the internal development of new systems, customization of existing systems, and integration of software developed by third parties. This team will develop true pan-European programs that serve our European customers and businesses.

These teams are comprised of Software Engineers at multiple levels alongside Technical Program Managers, UX Designers, and Business partners. Engineers on this team will work closely with a variety of business and technology platform and service teams across Amazon.

In INTech, we look for experienced software engineering leaders who possess a wide variety of skills. As the successful applicant for this role, you will solve varied complex problems across Amazon (including business prioritization, technical challenges in optimization, large-scale computing, distributed systems, web applications, scalability, security, and algorithms, to name just a few), you will drive multiple programs in parallel, you will work with business stakeholders and partner technical teams across Europe, Asia, India and the USA, and you will support the growth and development of a high-performing software engineering team. INTech is composed of many clever and generally awesome people, so you'll learn a huge amount - and have a lot of fun - in the process!

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years relevant work experience
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 1+ years relevant work experience
• Experience in design and coding in OO languages like Java or C++
• Familiarity with scripting languages and an understanding of Agile environments.