Job Description

DESCRIPTION

AbeBooks, an Amazon company, connects millions of buyers with booksellers from around the world. We provide a marketplace for hundreds of millions of items that includes everything from exquisite manuscripts and long lost books from your childhood, to postcards from Mohandas Gandhi and signed first editions of \xe2\x80\x9cA Farewell to Arms\xe2\x80\x9d.

AbeBooks\' mission is \xe2\x80\x9cto help people find and buy any book from any bookseller\xe2\x80\x9d. As a part of this mission we work daily to help customers discover our marketplace and the millions of books available from thousands of booksellers. This is challenging and equally rewarding for a truly global marketplace for rare and collectable books. We feel proud to provide a seamless experience to buyers from over 200 countries purchasing products from sellers representing over 60 countries. Our sites get millions of page views every day, and we promote millions of books across several marketing channels. We like to think we know what we\'re doing, and we\'re always keen on learning and improving.

You will own our Selection and Seller Tooling space, working on scaling our existing systems and designing a new generation of technology. You will have the opportunity to work with other Amazon teams and Amazon technologies as we take advantage of capabilities of our parent company.

Key job responsibilities

You\'re an engineer with rich experience in designing, developing, and supporting multiple software intensive systems. We\'re looking for full-stack engineers - you will be working with Linux, AWS, SQL, queues, REST services, Java, HTML and JavaScript. You will be successful if you:

• Care about code quality and readability
• Are comfortable working with data structures as much as discussing software development processes with your peers
• Get inspired by collecting product and system metrics, and by proposing improvements
• Take code review feedback gracefully and provide your feedback with abundance
• Love to see your code deployed, and want to see it happening more often

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor\'s degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.

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