Software Development Engineer

Amazon.ae

Amman, Jordan

Ref: RP971-1077

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Description

Job Purpose
• To help in building, and maintaining core functions of Q-express Technology systems.
• Work with the team of developers to build all new system functionality based on the road map to fulfil all system requested features.

Job Description
• If you are a sharp software engineer with a creative flare, strong problem-solving skills, a solid computer science foundation and the desire to be an individual contributor in Q-express next generation technology, we would like to meet you.
• Joining our team provides the unique challenge and opportunity to write a software that benefits our customers.
• The ideal candidate will draw upon exemplary analytical, critical thinking, and problem solving skills, deep software development experience, and a passion for creating reliable and maintainable systems.
• The candidate should be open to new challenges, extremely good at multi-tasking, innovative, creative, self-directed and a great team player.
• The candidate should also drive continuous process improvement, and collaborate effectively with aggressive cross-functional business and software development teams to solve problems and implement new solutions.

Key Responsibilities
• Provide assistance in designing the system features.
• Develop all required functionalities as per team plan.
• Coach developers and improve their skills.
• Solving large-scale engineering challenges.
• Ensure that all activities are being documented (in details) and well maintained.
• Support project management in project execution of cross functional activities.

Communication / Internal / External
• Internal: Technology and product Team
• External: None

Requirements

Basic Qualifications
• 2+ years of programming experience with progressive development responsibilities in Java.
• Agile development, daily scrum, taking ownership of both production issues and new features.
• Self-motivated, thrives working in a small team.
• Solid technical understanding and API documentation are essential for cross-team development.
• Bachelor’s Degree or Masters in Computer Science or related field.
• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures.
• Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Good English written / verbal communication skills, bilingual Preferred.
• Design thinking Approach.
• Energetic.
• Flexible approach.
• Focused and professional attitude.
• Strong problem detection abilities.
• Team-oriented.
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.
• Ability to work well in teams.
• Focused and self-motivated.

Preferred Qualifications
• Real world experience with SQL data store for java applications, Java ORM tools like Hibernate/JPA. Production MySQL is a plus.
• Java ecosystem for daily development: Spring/Play framework, Apache ,Ant/Maven/Gradle, Tomcat/Jetty/TomEE, Jenkins.
• RESTful API specification, implementation, JSON and solid documentation will be a plus (or SOAP webservice experience with leanings towards REST).

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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