Merch by Amazon (merch.amazon.com) is a new Amazon business that provides a make-on-demand platform for creating, publishing, promoting, and selling merchandise such as t-shirts. Content creators such as major celebrities, media companies, and novelty t-shirt sellers can produce and market their merchandise using this platform. A key to the success of this platform is sophisticated and scalable functionality and integration with a large number of Amazon services. A software development engineer will create new functionalities and will own significant modules of Merch by Amazon. The ideal candidate should have a solid understanding of end-to-end multi-tier software knowledge, thrive in a fast-paced environment and has experience developing web services and large-scale software. The candidate should be willing to take on challenging initiatives, and capable of working both independently and with others as a team. The person should be an active practitioner of server-side engineering excellence:
· BS/MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience · 4+ years of professional software development · Experience developing large scale, low latency, multi-tier systems · Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, and complexity analysis· Expertise (4+ years) with a production language such as Java