SDE 3, Amazon Hub

At Amazon Hub we tackle the challenges of package delivery pickup and returnsmaking the process seamless and convenient for our customers. A lot of time Amazon customers have to go through hassles of coordinating delivery time with carriers and are not able to receive their packages. We solve this problem for them. We allow customer to get their package (and do their returns) when and where they want. In other words we make the package delivery asynchronous in nature. How messaging solutions like AWS SQS / JMS are critical part of tech architecture the same way we are becoming important to package delivery.

We have spent the last 8 years building a global network of hundreds of thousands of Hub locations across 12 countries and every continent delivering millions of packages each month. Yet we still operate with the mindset of a startupagile fast and laserfocused on innovation.

With key stakeholders and dependencies aligned under a single leadership structure we make decisions quickly and execute at speed. Over the past 3 years alone we have launched multiple successful new products pushing the boundaries of whats possible. Looking ahead were focused on enhancing existing products developing entirely new capabilities and converging our architecture to accelerate execution and boost the resiliency of our network.

In this role you will rearchitect the backend that cuts across all Hub Products and work very closely with the Sr. Engineers and Principle Engineers of Last Mile Tech to reduce redundancies improve throughput and scale the system for a 100X growth over next 3 years. You will also be part of crosscutting initiatives that impact the entire Hub Network and lead several engineers while doing so.

You will lead and coordinate design/implementation efforts coordinating across multiple teams to develop optimal solutions. You will be expected to create a roadmap align with business partners on prioritization propose appropriate tradeoffs clearly communicate goals roles responsibilities and desired outcomes to leadership and stakeholders. You will also establish planning mechanisms to deliver on your roadmap demonstrate the operational excellence and maintain a high code quality bar. You will be expected to deep dive into complex business use cases and system dependencies and work backwards from the customer to propose solutions that solve business and customer needs.

Key job responsibilities
Define the system architecture considering the 35 year vision of the Hub business.
Hands on involvement during the development life cycle of key product subsystems
Mentoring junior engineers by means of reviewing their code design documents project plans etc. to reduce inefficiencies increase throughput and ensuring shortterm decisions are eliminated to ensure resiliency of the systems.
Collaborate with the Product Managers TPMs SDMs Sr. Engineers to ensure continuous innovation and disambiguation of complex problem statements.
A day in the life

A Sr. engineers spend some time through the week in mentoring junior engineers and reviewing their technical artifacts
About the team

Amazon Hub Team vision is provide all amazon customers an alternate mechanism of getting their packages delivered which is cheaper and more convenient that home deliveries/pickups. We own the entire tech stack of all Amazon Hub Product lines including Amazon Lockers Counters Locker.

5 years of noninternship professional software development experience
5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

5 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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