Software Development Engineer, IMDbPro

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Prior leadership experience, mentoring and guiding junior team members through design review and code review

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IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content with an audience of more than 250 million unique monthly visitors on web and mobile apps. At IMDb, you'll be joining a team of seasoned leaders who value execution and decision making at the speed of startups, but with the backing and resources of Amazon. As an engineer, you will have the opportunity to use Amazon technologies from all over the company to build amazing products, which will be used directly by industry professionals around the world. We are looking for a strong full stack development engineer to join our IMDbPro Team and lead the effort of building engaging and personalized user experiences in our professional customers on IMDbPro.

At IMDbPro, you can expect a culture of ambitious but achievable product development, built in short iterations with lots of experimentation. We celebrate team and personal milestones, and value balanced lifestyles that enable us to be refreshed and productive each day. Best of all, we share a passion for entertainment; we meet regularly with our founder and colleagues to discuss current films, shows, and events.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will develop new features for IMDb and IMDbPro, working with your engineering team, product managers, and UX designers to build web features that delight our Pro customers. You will own customer facing features through the entire life-cycle, from design, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch support. You will need to be comfortable working in Front End systems such as React, Next.js, JSP, and Freemarker. You will also need to be comfortable with backend systems such as GraphQL, Database Management (relational and non-relational), and AWS Infrastructure. A wide array of learning resources are available for specific technologies, but a fundamental understanding of full stack development will be necessary for this role. In addition to new feature development, you will have an active support role for maintain existing systems and contributing to necessary migration and modernization efforts.

A day in the life
You love challenging problems, collaborating with stakeholder teams, defining roadmaps, design creative technical solutions, delivering features our customers love, and mentoring more junior engineers.

We have high technical standards and support you to lead the team to reach for new engineering excellence leveraging internal Amazon technologies as well as AWS services like DynamoDB and Lambda as well as other technologies such as GraphQL. You will set the standard for engineering, testing, and operational excellence, drive best practices across organization.

About the team
The IMDbPro Showcase team is responsible features and services that empower entertainment professionals to manage information about themselves, their clients, and/or their company across IMDb and IMDbPro.