Software Development Engineer, Woot!

Amazon•Carrollton, TX

About The Position

Do you want to have a large impact on a growing business? Do you want to have a wide breadth of ownership? Do you want to see your impact daily on both internal and external customers? Do you want to collaborate with the kind of folks who would enjoy selling something called a "Bag of Crap" almost as much as our customers love buying them? Woot! is the original daily deals website, combining an entertaining shopping experience with deals so good they literally can't last long. Our engineering teams build the web and app experiences our customers use to browse and purchase, build the tools and automation that help us to find the right deals at the right time among millions of options, and build the tools that powers Woot's business. You’ll get to learn, grow and work with amazing team to: - Unlock Woot's growth by innovating the systems and tools that power Woot's business-within-a-business - customer service, fulfillment, and finance functions to name a few. - Design, develop, and improve systems, owning the entire lifecycle - from working with the product team, to design and architecture, to implementation and release, to operations. - Work with a wide array of technologies every day, including SNS, Lambda, Typescript, NextJS, CDK, REST, C#, and DynamoDB. - Work closely with internal customers to drive new solutions that impact internal and external customers. Work/Life Balance: Woot! values work-life balance. We aim to work efficiently. Working long hours is an exception, not the rule. As an engineering team, we are builders and operators, and thus have an on-call rotation that you will participate on. Getting paged is not seen as inevitable, and we work to make our systems more fault tolerant over time. Inclusive Team Culture: We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. We seek to make every team member feel valued and connected. We are looking for a new teammate who is empathetic and curious and will further amplify our positive and inclusive culture. You'll join the Data & Fulfillment Team, where we power Woot's data ecosystem and order fulfillment operations. Our mission is to transform raw business data into actionable insights while ensuring every customer order flows seamlessly from click to delivery. We solve complex problems for our customers - ensuring accurate inventory data for real-time availability and optimizing fulfillment routing for faster, cheaper delivery. Our team maintains critical systems including data warehouses, reporting platforms, and fulfillment channel integrations that are essential to both customer experience and business operations. You'll collaborate closely with product managers and cross-functional partners to build the data infrastructure that drives Woot's decision-making.

Requirements

Experience programming with at least one software programming language
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Nice To Haves

5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
5+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience

Responsibilities

Technical Ownership & System Design: Take full ownership of strategic projects, building scalable, low-latency products and services while designing fault-tolerant distributed systems across teams
Code Quality & Engineering Excellence: Deliver high-quality, cloud-first AWS solutions using technologies like Lambda, Fargate, and ML while maintaining operational excellence and identifying technical improvements
Leadership & Mentorship: Collaborate with and mentor junior engineers, conduct technical assessments and code reviews, and make independent medium-impact decisions while considering diverse perspectives
Cross-functional Impact: Convert business requirements to technical designs through stakeholder collaboration, shape product direction, and leverage worldwide platforms to build decoupled solutions that drive business outcomes
Technical Influence: Work with senior engineers to evolve product design, set software quality standards, and demonstrate technical influence across multiple teams while focusing on long-term scalability