Senior Software Engineer

Apex Systems Inc

Greater London, UK

18 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.collegerecruiter.com

Tech stack

Clean Code Principles Java (Programming Language) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Authentication Protocols Unit Testing Command-Line Interface Cloud Computing Profiling Code Review Computer Networks

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Continuous Delivery DDoS Mitigation Linux Distributed Systems Domain Name System (DNS) Amazon DynamoDB Push Technology Networking Basics Performance Tuning Shell Script Software Engineering TypeScript AWS Cdk Transport Layer Security Load Balancing Amazon ElastiCache Concurrency Backend Kotlin Low Latency Deployment Automation Functional Programming Software Coding Code Restructuring

Job description

We are hiring an L5 Software Development Engineer (contractor) in London to join the Prime Video Edge Platform team.

The Edge Control team accelerates builders by centralising undifferentiated effort, providing a suite of capabilities to safely control and configure Prime Video clients. We ensure client interactions with Prime Video’s global infrastructure are reliable, cost-efficient, measurable, and fast. Our services enable safe management and release of client configurations, delivery of push notifications, and power the end-to-end observability and intelligent client-driven traffic routing with automated failover capabilities. We accelerate teams across Prime Video in deploying native AI solutions through providing a remote platform to rapidly and reliably host remote MCP tools.

You will work within the Edge Control team to build and operate mission-critical services using AWS-native technologies at scale.

Requirements

Proficiency with Java, Kotlin and TypeScript
Experience designing and building distributed systems or backend services
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS - e.g., Ec2, NLB, ElastiCache, Lambda, DynamoDB)
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK)
Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, HTTP/TLS, load balancing)
Experience operating and maintaining production software, including monitoring, alarming, and incident response
Linux/UNIX proficiency (command-line tools, shell scripting), * Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems at scale
Advanced coding skills including concurrency, profiling, and performance optimisation
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Experience with security at the network edge (DDoS protection, authentication protocols, TLS termination)
Demonstrated best-practice software engineering: unit testing, code reviews, refactoring, continuous deployment
Responsibly leverages AI, using it effectively for high productivity without compromising availability or OE burden
Owns and delivers medium-complexity features independently with minimal guidance
Writes high-quality code and uses Agents to write high quality code and participates actively in code reviews
Operates effectively in ambiguous situations and asks the right questions to unblock themselves
Contributes to operational excellence - dashboards, runbooks, alarm tuning
Communicates clearly with the team on progress, blockers, and technical trade-offs