SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER - IASI

The candidate must have a degree in computer science (or equivalent) and several years of professional software development experience. The candidate must demonstrate interest in a broad range of technologies focusing on enterprise-grade software and web sites.
- Strong development skills in Java (C++ / C# experience is also acceptable)
- Solid expertise in data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis
- Good understanding of software architecture and design issues
- Experience in developing front end applications is a plus (especially Perl/Mason/ExtJS)
- Knowledge or experience with Hadoop/HBase is a plus
- advanced level of English.

Job description:

The Website Analytics team provides interactive, visual, and actionable tools that analyze customer behavior for Amazon websites. The main challenges you will encounter as a member of this team comprise of building systems that scale to huge data sets we collect and analyze, delivering final analysis of high quality (as they can influence selling decisions), and providing results near real-time. If you join Website Analytics team, your work will have an immediate influence on day-to-day decision making at Amazon.com.

We are looking for software engineers with strong analytical and problem solving skills, which will participate in full development cycle from design and implementation to documentation and maintenance. The successful candidate will have an entrepreneurial spirit and be passionate about developing reliable, efficient, and maintainable data analysis solutions that provide users with robust information solutions.


Benefits:

- Attractive compensation plan;
- Excellent working environment;
- Excellent development opportunities.

With over 80 000 employees worldwide, Amazon is the global leader in e-commerce, one of the top world providers of web services and the owner of the most successful e-reader: the Amazon Kindle.
In Romania, Amazon Development Center opened in 2005 and has been ever since continuously expanding. The Iasi team is part of the e-commerce platform and its main objective is developing the newest most innovative technologies and tools that power the Amazon site and Amazon Web Services products (e.g. S3, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or Amazon Simple Email Services).
Our Software Development Engineers, alongside their colleagues from development centers around the world, deal with solving some of the most complex scalability problems; building together distributed systems that are adapted to the unique magnitude of Amazon’s data sets and traffic.