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- Are you ready to relaunch your career in Software Development?
- Have you been out of the workforce for 1+ years? Or have you been working in a different field and want to return to a career in Software Development?
- Restart your career in a fully paid Returnship Programme at Amazon with the potential to progress to a permanent full-time position
About The Returnship Programme
- This 16-week paid employment opportunity is available to you if you are looking to resume your professional career after experiencing a period of under-employment and/or unemployment
- This program offers you a chance to revamp your skills, update your resume with new experience, and make connections with other professionals who are returning to their careers.
Benefits Included In The Program
- Paid, 16 week, Fixed Term Contract
- Opportunity to Work from home for the duration of the Returnship
- Flexibility – Your manager will work with you to establish the best and most productive use of your time.
- Work on real-life projects
- Extensive support and mentorship to get you back up to speed
Upon successful completion of the Programme, there is the potential of an offer for full-time employment which will be based in the Amazon office in London.
- Who can apply?*
- For this opportunity, the Amazon Returnship Programme welcomes Returners with previous experience in Software Development to apply.
If you have a gap in your employment, for whatever reason, or if you are currently under-employed or employed in a different field, and want to return to Software Development, then we would like to hear from you.
To apply you must be living in, and have the right to work full time in, the UK and be available to start working fulltime in the Returnship Programme if your application is successful.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Non-internship professional software development experience
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Bachelor’s degree
- Must be unemployed for 1+ years
- Is not currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program
- Open to relocate to Location of role
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AWS.
- Experience with contributing to and maintaining production software.
- Experienced with HTML, CSS, Linux/UNIX (command-line tools, shell scripts, operations).
- Experience in data manipulation and analysis.
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Company – SE – Amazon Digital UK Ltd
Job ID: A2115367
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