AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) Hiring for SDE II – Pyxis, Pyxis Job at London, England Full Time

Job summary
Are you driven by complex problem solving? Are you comfortable working with ambiguity that affords you the freedom to innovate? Do you like working alongside high performing and skilled engineers? Do you want to help support and evolve services provided by the world’s biggest cloud provider?

We are building a team of engineers to work on some unique and challenging problems that impact some of AWS’s biggest services. We are developing new and innovative tools to provide governance & oversight to large parts of AWS. We are looking for technologists with a broad skillset and a passion for problem solving. AWS is a constantly evolving business and the tools we are developing enable us to continue that evolution at scale.

Join Pyxis and impact Amazon at scale!

Key job responsibilities

• Designing and implementing solutions to ambiguous complex problems
• Building new tools utilizing internal and external services
• Vertical slice development
• Agile development

A day in the life
As an SDE in Pyxis you will be working alongside some of the brightest engineers in the company responsible for developing and supporting some of our biggest internal and external tools. You will get exposure to many different technologies and Greenfield Software projects enabling you to input in the design of brand new tools.

Our work is extremely varied and often includes breaking ground on new ways of working for the whole company. Our backlog covers a number of different projects at any one time and employ agile methods to remain obsessed with our customers.

About the team
We are building the Pyxis UK Dev team to work on complex problems and develop novel solutions. As a new and growing team we work we have autonomy to define ourselves both in terms of technology and ways of working. We are heavily invested in developing a cohesive team that adapts with input from everyone.

• Design and familiarity with noSQL databases like DynamoDB or MongoDB, DynamoDB is preferred.
• Experience mentoring and training the engineering community on complex technical issues

Any combination of:

• Experience in building complex software systems, especially services
• Experience building on top of AWS
• Passion for software development tools and development process automation
• Front-end development

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