Software Development Engineer II

Amazon.ae

Amman, Jordan

Posted
Ref: RP971-1884

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

DESCRIPTION
Amazon Middle East and North Africa team is looking for a Software Development Engineer who is passionate about building great products for our customers & Sellers. The SDE-II will be based in Amman, JOR and must have Software engineering experience involving designing, architecting and solving complex problems.

Key job responsibilities

The SDE-II will:
Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
Write high quality distributed system software
Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.

About the team
Team's vision is to raise the bar for Tax, Compliance and Accounting workstreams. Focused to support MENA projects where Amazon has a potential to invest and scale the customer's base. As these are small and nascent operations, the challenges and opportunities are different compared to mature countries. As a new market with evolving customer expectations, technology plays important role in opportunities to invent on behalf of our customers and export those models to more established geographies. The team will focus on creating a deep partnerships with WW-technology teams and build projects on new set of innovative features which adds great value to those countries.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Amman, JOR

Requirements

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

About the Company

Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae.

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