Web Development Engineers at Amazon Development Centre in Cape Town

Job Title: Web Development Engineers
Job Location:Cape Town
Employer: Amazon Development Centre

Amazon Development Centre South Africa is looking for passionate, experienced software developers to join us and help to solve a challenging set of problems in space packed full of opportunities. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. The Cape Town based Development Center plays a key role in building the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the web service that is pioneering cloud computing by providing resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It gives any developer complete control of their computing resources and lets them run on Amazon's proven computing environment. We are continuing to build the team in order to expand on our feature set and manage our rapidly increasing scale.

The ideal candidate is obsessive about creating the perfect user experience for millions of users. Creating the perfect user experience on the web requires a blend of technical knowledge, customer obsession and agility. Our web systems need to be extremely responsive and highly- scalable. If these kinds of challenges interest you, drop us a line.

Job Description

    Analysis and design of new features and interfaces for the web
    Optimizing current products to improve its performance and usability
    Support, troubleshooting and resolving of critical issues in production
    Working with a team, to achieve the ultimate user experience
    Analyzing application and user metrics to define our team strategy

The following will ensure a successful application:

    At least a four year degree or diploma in Computer Science or Engineering
    Nuts and bolts understanding of the web including HTTP, HTML, CSS, Javascript
    Knowledge and appreciation of web standards
    Strong customer focus
    At least 2 years of practical experience building production web applications
    Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals
    Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative applications
    Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities.
    Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
    Excellent written communication and verbal agility are strong assets.

Amazon.com offers a demanding, exciting and rewarding experience, with opportunities to work with the world's best computer scientists on some of the most interesting problems.

Deadline Date: 28.02.2014
How to Apply:

JOB APPLICATION .

Please email a text version of your resume/CV to:
info-za@amazon.com and state which job you are applying for.

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