Sr Software Development Engineer, AFT External Fulfillment

The Amazon Fulfillment Technology (AFT) powers the physical engine at the heart of Amazon. We are responsible for scalable and innovative solutions to enable fulfillment of millions of items every day across the globe. Our team owns the charter to make the AFT WMS more accessible and flexible for emerging markets and businesses. Join the team if you like to build scalable solutions that solves complex business problems and deliver strong business impact.

We are starting several key initiatives in our external fulfillment and are looking for a Software Development Engineer who wants to be challenged with building and driving innovative and scalable systems that manage our external fulfillment network. This opportunity includes architectural challenges in making a large volume of constantly changing data available to various applications owned by diverse customers (internal and external) and business use cases; as well as innovative solutions for managing data quality complex event processing.
We are building new products in this space with scaling requirements to support 10s of million business operations in a day across thousands of FCs. We are looking for SDEs who are passionate to build large-scale multi-tiered distributed software solutions. You will be empowered to think big invent and simplify on behalf of our stakeholders and customers and find elegant solutions to hard problems. You will be influencing other engineers and tech partners in the team to solve multi-region critical complex business features.

Key job responsibilities
As a Sr Software Engineer you will be expected to:
Design and develop creative solutions to complex engineering problems.
Effectively mentor junior engineers helping to maintain appropriate unit test coverage code documentation software structure and support
Own and deliver end to end key initiatives maintaining effective communication with management and stakeholders
Identify evaluate and suggest mitigation strategies for risks during design
Contribute to system design process and development standards documentation
Delivering high quality code on time as part of a cross-functional team.
Contributing to team discussions around system component design improvement and integration.
Designing and developing high performance test-driven code.
Working with and maintaining a large existing code base as well as new components; maintaining production code and contributing to deployment and QA processes.
We value inclusion celebrate successes and take the time to have fun. If this sounds like the right fit then we want to hear from you!

A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location the number of regularly scheduled hours you work length of employment and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular full-time employees include:
1. Medical Dental and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly wed still love to hear from you! At Amazon we value people with unique backgrounds experiences and skillsets. If youre passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale please apply!

About the team
Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazons global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software hardware and data science solutions that orchestrate processes robots machines and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want when they want it. Learn more about AFT!

External Fulfillment
AFTs External Fulfillment team builds flexible scalable solutions specifically designed for the needs of Amazons emerging markets and businesses.

- 5 years of non-internship 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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