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Software Development Engineer, Kumo Development Team

Job Ref
261228
Job Type
Permanent
Employer Type
Company
Date Added 10 Mar 2017
Expiry Date 7 Apr 2017
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Employer:
Amazon Development Centre Cape Town

Location:
Western Cape

Salary:
Market related

Benefits:


Role details:
Job Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic and rapidly growing cloud computing business within Amazon. We provide developers and their organizations with building block web services that allow them to innovate faster and to operate their software more cost-effectively. These services-in-the-cloud include on-demand compute capacity, storage, content delivery, querying of structured data, message queuing, and more.

AWS Kumo development team is working on 4 different, green field projects including customer facing applications. The space lends itself to be cutting edge and intellectually stimulating as we are tackling new boundaries in the cloud computing space. Some of the challenges facing the team are in big data, social apps, machine learning and data mining. We are filing for multiple patents in this area and has room for lot more to be filed. You will be surrounded by people that are wickedly smart and passionate about cloud computing. The team is a part of a self-standing P&L group with the ability to drive both Free Cash Flow and world class customer experience.

We have a need for a software development engineer who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This individual will have the responsibility to:
· Develop software services that are designed to adapt to the evolving businesses of Amazon while improving customer experience, as well as the quality and productivity of our operations teams.
· Develop a platform that will provide the opportunity to contribute to the complete vertical stack of an SOA based system, which is horizontally connected to most systems in the larger Amazon ecosystem. Areas include business intelligence, web service implementation, database design, web based applications, UI design and usability and accessibility optimization.
· Build relationships with existing and potential internal customers to understand their individual requirements and demonstrate how products can add value to their business.
· Developers in this position will use a variety of mainstream and open source technologies like Java, C++, Linux, Perl, Javascript, Oracle, as well as in-house Amazon technologies.
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Qualifications
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
· The technical skills required for this role include 1+ years of strong object-oriented design and programming in Java or C++.
· Understanding and experience with web based technologies is essential. These may include HTML, HTTP, Javascript, JSON, AJAX, apache, tomcat.

Preferred Qualifications
· System Design
· Experience working pragmatically under deadlines with operational software is highly desired.
· Project management experience



 
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