Senior Software Engineer

Skills And Qualifications 

• 2-3 years of hands-on experience in back-end development with Node.js. ● Knowledge of Node.js frameworks 
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages 
• Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git ● Have worked in any of the cloud based platform AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes. 

As a back-end developer, you’ll work on our back-end app that is built with Ruby on Rails. You’ll help to plan and develop new features, review other people’s code, fix bugs, help in technological and business decisions, and support the internal team.

Responsibilities

• Work in our main app back end built with Ruby on Rails
• Act as an architect of new features
• Review other people's code
• Fix bugs
• Help in decisions of technology and business
• Support internal team
• Refactor code

Requirements

• At least 3 years of industry experience
• At least 1 year of experience working on Ruby on Rails projects
• Comfortable in dealing with server infrastructure and deployment processes
• Experience with continuous delivery and automated testing.
• Experience with refactoring Ruby on Rails applications
• Experience in designing, developing and maintaining APIs
• Can work for at least a couple of hours during Japanese business hours

Nice to haves

These aren’t required, but be sure to mention them in your application if you have them.

• UI/UX design principles
• Good understanding of coding best practices and design patterns
• Understanding of security technologies (encryption, authentication, OAuth 2.0)
• Contribution to open source projects
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed
• Agile Development experience

Role- Software Development Engineer-2

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

Top Skills

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++ or C#
• You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
• Roles & Responsibilities
• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
• You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object-oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.

About Amazon.com

“Many of the problems we face have no textbook solution, and so we-happily-invent new ones.” – Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com – a place where builders can build. We hire the world's brightest minds and offer them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers. A Fortune 100 company based in Seattle, Washington, Amazon is the global leader in e-commerce. Amazon offers everything from books and electronics to apparel and diamond jewelry. We operate sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom and United States, and maintain dozens of fulfillment centers around the world which encompass more than 26 million square feet.

Technological innovation drives the growth of Amazon, offering our customers more selection, convenient shopping, and low prices. Amazon Web Services provides developers and small to large businesses access to the horizontally scalable state of the art cloud infrastructure like S3, EC2, AMI, CloudFront and SimpleDB, that powers Amazon.com. Developers can build any type of business on Amazon Web Services and scale their application with growing business needs.

We want you to help share and shape our mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of invention that is part of our DNA. We do this every day by inventing elegant and simple solutions to complex technical and business problems. We're making history and the good news is that we've only just begun.

We are looking for highly motivated engineers with the following skillset-

• Engineering degree in Computer science or ECE or MCA is a must
• In-depth knowledge of PHP, HTML5, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, AJAX
• Experience using PHP frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, Zend, etc. - any 1 is required
• VueJS, AngularJS, ReactJS - knowledge of any 1 is required
• Between 1-5 years of work experience is required
• Very strong data structure and algorithm knowledge
• Ideal candidate would be a very strong developer with great coding skills
• Good English communication skills
• Willingness to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work through ambiguous requirements and come up with a clear scope and problem statement
• If you have any live projects portfolio or GitHub handle please share them
• Office is in Fairlie place (Dalhousie), Kolkata 700 001