Software Development Engineer, Woot!

Amazon • Carrollton, TX

3d

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 Conversion Team, where we power Woot's checkout and
post-purchase experience. Our mission is to deliver seamless, scalable, and
flexible solutions that empower our customers and partners, ensuring they can
transact securely and efficiently. We solve complex problems for our customers —
from optimizing every step of the checkout journey to expanding payment options
and simplifying the support experience with self-service features and modern
communication capabilities such as chat. Our team maintains and evolves key
connectivity services including the Federated GraphQL Platform, Product
Ingestion, Order History, and Customer Support Platforms that are essential to
both customer experience and business operations. You'll collaborate closely
with product managers and cross-functional partners to build solutions that
drive a positive, frictionless experience for Woot customers.

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

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

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed