Software Development Engineer

Imagine being a part of a small, agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach thousands within a short span of time. Picture working on cutting edge technologies, where every single team member is a critical voice in the decision-making process. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up.

Amazon is looking for Software Development Engineers for its Brisbane based Grocery Engineering Team, building industry leading automation to improve the efficiency of our grocery fulfilment teams worldwide. As part of the team, you'll be responsible for creating the user interfaces to sophisticated autonomous storage and retrieval systems, and the back end integrations that tie them into all our existing order processing and inventory systems. This is a position that provides a unique opportunity to work with almost every part of our Grocery business.

Our engineers are highly-motivated and thrive in an environment where problems are open-ended. We enjoy engaging in passionate discussions with smart people and letting the best ideas rise to the top. We see our mistakes as learning opportunities and continually look for ways to improve ourselves, our team and our products. We understand that not all solutions come easily and don't shy away from hard work to reach our goals. If that sounds like you, we'd love for you to join us If you have the skills to build large-scale and high-performance services, want to have impact at a global scale, and grow your expertise and career surrounded by some of the most talented people in the industry, this is the job for you.

Key job responsibilities
- Design new systems that operate at a global scale.
- Have direct ownership over the design of new components in the solution.
- Build and evolve back end services that are highly available, scalable, have low latency and are extensible.
- Work with UX Design teams to build intuitive interfaces that delight our associates and customers.
- Work with multiple, different teams across the company and across the globe.
- Leverage AWS services to build and deploy cloud-native applications.
- Ensure the implementation of robust security measures and compliance with data privacy regulations.
- Conduct thorough code reviews and mentor other engineers on the team to maintain high code quality standards.

About the team
We're a welcoming and supportive team who are passionate about delivering the best possible experience for our end users. We hold a high bar for the quality of our systems, and regard the growth and work-life harmony of our colleagues as much as we value our own. #austechjobs

- 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
- Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, algorithm design, data structures, problem solving and complexity analysis

- 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
- Experience with distributed, multi-tiered systems, algorithms, and relational databases

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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