Software Development Engineer II WW Returns and ReCommerce

Not many teams aspire to zero. Welcome to the Worldwide Returns and ReCommerce team (WWR&R) at Amazon.

WW R&R is an agile innovative organization dedicated to making zero happen to benefit our customers our company and the environment. The mission of WWR&R is to eliminate defects that cause returns (Zero defects) deliver Zero cost of returns for Amazon and send Zero product waste to landfill the 3 Zeros. We do this by developing products and driving unparalleled operational excellence to help customers keep what they buy recover returned & damaged product value and create the best customer returns experience in the world.
Amazon WW R&R is comprised of business product operational program software engineering and data teams that manage the life of a returned or damaged product from a customer to the warehouse and on to its next best use. Our work is broad and deep: we train machine learning models to automate routing and find signals to optimize reuse; we invent new channels to give products a second life; we develop worldclass product support to help customers love what they buy; we pilot smarter product evaluations; we work from the customer backward to find ways to make the return experience remarkably delightful and easy; and we do it all while scrutinizing our business with laser focus.

As a member of this team your mission will be to design develop document and support massively scalable distributed real time systems. Using C Java object oriented design patterns distributed databases and other innovative storage techniques you will build and deliver software systems that support complex and rapidly evolving business requirements.

We are looking for software engineers with 2 years of solid Software engineering experience involving solving complex problems. They will get to work on some of the key initiatives planned to support our rapid evolution and growth and in the process solve some of the most challenging problems. These engineers will provide the technical leadership to the team drive best practices mentor other engineers and drive continuous improvements in engineering excellence.
We are a group that has fun at work while driving incredible customer business and environmental impact. We are backed by a strong leadership group dedicated to operational excellence that empowers a reasonable worklife balance. As an established experienced team we offer the scope and support needed for substantial career growth.

Amazon is earths most customercentric company and through WW R&R the earth is our customer too. Come join us and innovate with the Amazon Worldwide Returns & ReCommerce team!

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3 years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development Release or Live Ops) experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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