Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Love food? We do! The Amazon Fresh and Prime Now teams are seeking a Software Development Engineer to join our team that is focused on building software for large cross-functional strategic initiatives that support Amazon Fresh and Prime Now businesses globally.

As a developer on the team youll drive improvements to our technology, collaborating with sharp engineers and highly-engaged users to ship code continuously. We have many domains ranging from highly-scalable transactional backend systems, to complex optimization problems, to customer facing mobile apps, so if you love building world-class software of any type, most likely we have a place for you.
Were truly an agile shop: we work closely with users, deliver features with high frequency, can pivot on a dime when needed, and are aggressive about test coverage, refactoring and paying off technical debt.

Were looking for software development leaders who share our passion for continuously improving processes, who are motivated by challenging problems in distributed systems, algorithms, and HCI and who love writing great code. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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

Masters Degree in Computer Science or a related field
Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Knowledge and implementation of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Strong Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their abilities in all aspects of their engineering skill-sets
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
Familiarity with cloud computing
Experience building scalable, available, and low-latency systems

By submitting your application here, you can apply once to be considered for multiple Software Engineer openings across various Amazon teams. If you are successful in passing through the initial application review and assessment, you will be asked to submit your career and personal preferences so that our dedicated recruiters can match you to the right role based on these preferences.

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