SDE II, Middle Mile Products and Technology

Its no secret that Amazon relies on its technology to deliver millions of packages every day to its customers on time with low cost. Our Transportation Technology division builds the complex software solutions that work across our vendors warehouses and carriers to optimize both time & cost of getting the packages delivered. Our services already handle thousands of requests per second make business decisions impacting billions of dollars a year integrate with a network of small and large carriers worldwide manage business rules for millions of unique products and improve ordering and delivery experience for millions of online shoppers. This remains a fast growing business and our technical journey has only started. With rapid expansion into new geographies innovations in supply chain unique delivery models for products ranging from Fresh groceries to big-screen TVs increasingly complex transportation network and growing number of shipments worldwide we see a brand new opportunity to fundamentally change the way people get the stuff they need and make a big impact by cutting billions of dollars of transportation costs from the ecosystem. Our mission is to build the most efficient and optimal transportation system on the planet using our engineering muscle as our biggest advantage. We aim to leverage cutting edge technologies in big data machine learning and optimization techniques and operate high volume low latency and high availability services.

Key job responsibilities
Youll design and develop software used worldwide by our transportation partners and will regularly interact with engineering and business leadership. You will participate in the planning and execution of technology projects and operational excellence initiatives. Youll also mentor junior engineers in employing strong design and implementation practices.
To accomplish this you will be expected to have an established background in building scalable software systems great communication skills and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex software is customer-centric and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals. Experience with building and operating the web services backing mobile applications especially at massive scale will be very applicable and helpful.
Come and see for yourself why we are one of the most admired companies in the US rated #1 in Innovation and # 1 in Customer Service and be part of our tradition of working hard having fun and making history!

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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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