Software Development Engineer 2
Amazon
Software Development Engineer 2
Amazon
Sells products online and rents cloud computing
We are spearheading the development of India-centric technology aimed at revolutionizing the Health, Wellness, Subscriptions in India. This presents a rare opportunity to work on pioneering projects with substantial impact and the potential to reshape the Subscribe And Save market in India. If the prospect of working on immensely impactful products excites you, we invite you to engage with us.
In this position, you will be involved in every aspect of the software development lifecycle, from collaborating with customers and various stakeholders—including product managers, operations, category managers, and finance teams—to devise scalable and adaptable designs, to implementing these designs in a manner that ensures scalability and maintainability. You will collaborate with global external teams, senior software development engineers, and principal engineers to tackle challenging business and design issues. Successful candidates exhibit a passion for translating broad, ambiguous business objectives into robust software platforms that empower diverse businesses. They demonstrate a proactive approach, consistently delivering solutions on time and possessing a strong team spirit.
We are committed to fostering your career growth. Upon joining our team, you and your manager will collaboratively develop a career plan, which will be regularly reviewed to ensure alignment with your aspirations. Whether you aim to explore emerging technologies, tackle more complex challenges, or advance to higher roles, we are dedicated to supporting your journey. As our business continues to expand rapidly, so too will the opportunities for professional development and growth for our team members.
The Health, Wellness and Subscriptions team within India Consumer Technology is dedicated to developing innovative products aimed at capturing a significant share of the expansive grocery market in India, ultimately providing customers with top-tier produce at affordable prices. As a Software Development Engineer (SDE) on this team, you'll be working in NAWS (EC2, Lambda, Step functions, Hex-AWS) development, presenting abundant opportunities for advancing your SDE career. Expect a manageable operations workload. Establishing an effective and top-notch grocery supply chain is paramount for Amazon to succeed in the Indian grocery sector. This role carries immense impact, allowing you to enhance customer experiences across India.
Key job responsibilities
- You solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
- You work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant.
- You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them (and when it is not). Your solutions are pragmatic.
- You consider the legacy of the code you produce and write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand.
- You limit the use of short-term workarounds. You do things with the proper level of complexity the first time (or at least minimize incidental complexity).
- You create flexible software without over-engineering. You make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies.
- You are efficient with resource usage (e.g., system hardware, database, memory/CPU, etc.)
- You work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders, and peers
About the team
We are fast-paced and focussed team made of passionate and ambitious Amazonians who strive to build industry leading products while closely collaborating and having fun. The team follows a flexible and collaborative work culture with ample mentoring and guidance from Sr.SDEs and PEs. The team values high ownership, bias for action and insist on highest standards and follows build fast and iterate fast methodology. The team is suitable for passionate engineers who are equally interested in contributing to business and product roadmap.
- 4+ 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 2+ years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience
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Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.
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