3 days ago
Chennai, India +2 moreMid Level
Responsibilities
- Solve complex software engineering problems using appropriate technologies and best practices.
- Design and build stable, performant software for Amazon Now’s shopping and ordering platforms.
- Apply pragmatic design and architecture approaches while making appropriate trade-offs.
- Write maintainable, understandable code and minimize short-term workarounds and incidental complexity.
- Create flexible software, reuse components where appropriate, and manage dependencies judiciously.
- Optimize system resource usage, including hardware, databases, memory, and CPU.
- Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and peers on project ideas and product initiatives.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
- Preferred: at least 3 years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred: at least 3 years contributing to new and existing systems architecture and design, including reliability and scaling.
Benefits
- Flexible and collaborative work culture with mentoring and guidance from principal engineers.
- Opportunity to work on first-time Amazon initiatives scaling beyond India and grocery.
- Work on customer-facing systems that influence conversion, basket size, and checkout completion.
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About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.