Retail Business Services (RBS) supports Amazons Retail business growth WW through three core tasks. These are (a) Selection where RBS sources creates and enrich ASINs to drive GMS growth; (b) Defect Elimination: where RBS resolves inbound supply chain defects and develops root cause fixes to improve free cash flow and (c) supports operational process for WW Retail teams where there is an air gap in the tech stack. The tech team in RBS develops automation that leverages Machine/Deep Learning to scale execution of these high complex tasks that currently require human cognitive skills. Our solutions ensure that information in Amazons catalog is complete correct and comprehensive enough to give Amazon customers a great shopping experience every time. Thats where you can help.
Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a sharp experienced Application Engineer (AE) with a diverse skillset and background. As an AE you will work directly with our business teams to solve their support needs with the existing applications and collect requirements and ways to solve highly scalable solutions in collaboration with other technical teams. You will play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables and building scalable systems. You will also contribute to maintain the services healthy and will be responsible for implementing and maintaining the solutions you provide. You will work closely with engineers on maintaining multiple products and services creating process automation scripts monitoring and handling ad-hoc operational asks. You understand the business impact of support decisions and drive the team to improve operational efficiency for all services through the identification and development of SLAs metrics monitors procedures tools and documentation. On-call support is a critical responsibility where you will work on issues related to alarm monitoring application infrastructure and bug fixes. On-boarding clients on to the platform and familiarizing them with platform features and capabilities.
A day in the life
Basic qualifications:
2 years of software development or 2 years of technical support experience
Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
Experience in React JS & Java as front-end & Back-end
Experience scripting in modern program languages
BS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Strong Knowledge of one high level programming language (preferably Java or python)
Ability to solve complex problems independently.
Understanding of the complete deployment life cycle from design build test & deploy.
- 2 years of software development or 2 years of technical support experience
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Experience in Unix
- Experience scripting in modern program languages
- Knowledge of web services distributed systems and web application development
- Experience troubleshooting & maintaining hardware & software RAID
- Experience with REST web services XML JSON
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