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by JonnyB_Amazon 3606 days ago
Amazon | Edinburgh, UK | Full Stack Engineer - On-site Only | Relocation Assistance | Full Time | Visa

Amazon development Centre (Scotland) is looking for experienced software developers with strong technical ability, a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

Our development centre in Edinburgh is responsible for devising and growing innovations for Amazon around the world. Small teams of developers, designers and leaders run major parts of Amazon’s business, technology and operations. From interactive UI design to large-scale distributed systems and machine learning, we do whatever it takes to deliver great products and experiences for our customers.

Our work is characterised by high scale, complexity and the need for invention. We offer great opportunities to work on big data, machine learning and high-scale, low-latency distributed systems.

We use a wide variety of languages including Java, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript; Open Source technologies including Linux, Ruby on Rails, and AngularJS; and we build on top of Amazon’s world-leading AWS platform.

For more information take a look at our microsite - http://www.amazondc.com

Feel free to get in touch with me – contact details in my profile - if you are interested in having an informal chat about roles here. (Please note, I only recruit for the Edinburgh Dev Centre, so cannot help you with other roles/locations)

2 comments

Here it says "visa" while almost all ads on the web site contains the following disclaimer:

All offers are conditional on references, verification of the right to work in the UK,[...]

Amazon is able to Sponsor working Visa's to the UK for successful candidates.
apply to amazon if you want to get treated like shit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12181093

They hire desperate commission seekers to do recruiting for them.