Description

The Amazon Fulfillment Technology (AFT) powers the physical engine at the heart of Amazon. We are responsible for scalable and innovative solutions to enable fulfillment of millions of items every day across the globe. Our team owns the charter to make the AFT WMS more accessible and flexible for emerging markets and businesses. Join the team if you like to build scalable solutions that solves complex business problems and deliver strong business impact.

We are starting several key initiatives in our external fulfillment and are looking for a Software Development Engineer who wants to be challenged with building and driving innovative and scalable systems that manage our external fulfillment network. This opportunity includes architectural challenges in making a large volume of constantly changing data available to various applications owned by diverse customers (internal and external) and business use cases; as well as innovative solutions for managing data quality, complex event processing.

We are building new products in this space with scaling requirements to support 10s of million business operations in a day across thousands of FCs. We are looking for SDEs who are passionate to build large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software solutions. You will be empowered to think big, invent and simplify on behalf of our stakeholders and customers, and find elegant solutions to hard problems. You will be influencing other engineers and tech partners in the team to solve multi-region critical complex business features.

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Engineer you will be expected to:

• Design and develop creative solutions to complex engineering problems.

• Effectively mentor junior engineers, helping to maintain appropriate unit test coverage, code documentation, software structure and support

• Own and deliver end to end key initiatives, maintaining effective communication with management and stakeholders

• Identify, evaluate and suggest mitigation strategies for risks during design

• Contribute to system design, process and development standards documentation

• Delivering high quality code on time as part of a cross-functional team.

• Contributing to team discussions around system component design, improvement and integration.

• Designing and developing high performance, test-driven code.

• Working with and maintaining a large existing code base as well as new components; maintaining production code and contributing to deployment and QA processes.

We value inclusion, celebrate successes and take the time to have fun. If this sounds like the right fit then we want to hear from you!

A day in the life

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team

Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.

External Fulfillment

AFT’s External Fulfillment team builds flexible, scalable solutions specifically designed for the needs of Amazon’s emerging markets and businesses.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.