Software Development Engineer

Amazon.ae

Amman, Jordan

Ref: RP971-463

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

DESCRIPTION

About SOUQ.com

Souq.com is the largest ecommerce site in the Arab world. Every month, Souq.com attracts more than 35 million visits to its catalogue of more than 1.5 million unique products in 20 different categories, including consumer electronics, household goods, fashion, watches, perfumes, toys, and baby products. Established in 2005, Souq.com today operates both as an award-winning retail business and an online marketplace that allows SMEs, merchants, brands and distributors to distribute their products online.

With more than 3,000 employees, we operate with the scale and ambition of a big corporation, but we cultivate a strong entrepreneurial and nimble mindset to ensure we execute with speed and efficiency. We have offices and local operations in UAE, Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and leading Product and Engineering centers in Jordan and India. We offer competitive salaries and benefits, and a unique opportunity to join the leading player in an ever growing and exciting industry.

Job Purpose:

- To help in building, and maintaining core functions of Souq.com 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 Souq.com 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.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of programming experience with progressive development responsibilities in Java.
- 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).
- Agile development, daily scrum, taking ownership of both production issues and new features.
- Self-motivated, thrives working in a small team.
- Computer Science fundamentals in data structures.
- Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

Technical Knowledge:

- Familiar with agile development framework.
- Highly competent with user interface, information architecture principles and the intricacies of web site.
- Experience in web service integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, and XML).

Behavioral Competencies:

- 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.

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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