Job Description

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Job summary
A to Z is a mobile app and web experience used by over a million Amazonians to manage their work-life and stay informed. The A to Z Comms team designs, builds, and operates the A to Z Feed and all that makes it possible. From content creation tools, to intelligent and customer obsessed content delivery mechanisms, to a world class end user experience, we own the tech and product end-to-end.

A to Z Comms seeks a software engineer who excels in turning big ideas into practical solutions. In People eXperience and Technology (PXT), we use modern technologies to solve complex problems at scale. If you want to solve novel problems using the newest technologies, develop your skills alongside incredible teammates, and measurably improve the lives of millions, A to Z is the place for you. We love challenges and we seek engineers that do too. We know technology always exists in a larger context, so we create technical solutions working backwards from our customer's perspective to ensure our solutions always deliver results.

Join us and you will own the design and development of major features. A to Z engineers build full-stack products, mobile and web front-ends to back-end services to persistent storage and everything in between. Can you work with engineers from many backgrounds to translate designs into quality software that is highly scalable, available, low latency, and high performing, reflecting the best combination of the ideas in the room? If you can, your design will get into production. So get ready to interact directly with the people who use your software, hear their feedback and use it to make your system even better!

A to Z is reinventing how Amazonians manage their work life. Are you ready to take on the biggest opportunity you ever had fun solving?

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Programming experience with at least one software programming language.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, service oriented architecture and relational databases.
• Excellent customer focus, ownership, and drive.
• Experience with AWS Services like Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, and API Gateway.
• Quick learner with a positive attitude, professional demeanor, and strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Comfortable working in a highly collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity with front-end UI frameworks such as React or Angular or use of JSX, Typescript.

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