Software Development Engineer, Japan Operations

Do you want to help reinvent how Amazon does Supply Chain in Japan and emerging marketplaces Do you want to be involved in optimizing all segments of fulfillment from inventory allocation across Fulfillment Centers to delivery to the customers doorstep

Amazon Global-focused Operations Technology Solutions (ARTS) team is hiring experienced Software Engineers to innovate and automate Amazon JP Operations and beyond! This is an expansive role that involves working on anything that will improve Amazon Operations efficiency in Japan India China Mexico and more! Responsibilities include implementing Worldwide technology locally and inventing novel new software solutions. Business spaces we have worked on include inventory distribution return logistics Fulfillment Center layout planning truck planning etc.

We make work/life harmony a priority. As long as required meetings are attended during standard working hours and work is completed employees are free to define their own hours. Amazon also offers other programs such as maternity and paternity leave.

Key job responsibilities
Your primary responsibilities are designing developing testing deploying and maintaining distributed software solutions independently. These solutions range across technical stacks and domain from web applications and backend services to cloud architecture and machine learning. You will work directly with technical and business teams locally and worldwide to understand business problems and design solutions.

A day in the life
An average day may look like:
- Attend daily standup either in person or remotely to give status updates
- Work on a technical design document to drive consensus between the internal team and stakeholders
- Spend uninterrupted time developing software
- Learn about a new cloud technology

- 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
- Knowledge of computer science fundamentals in data structures algorithm design and problem solving
- Experience in Business English skills both verbal and written
- Able to design technical solutions using industry standards (UML) make well-informed trade-offs and drive consensus within a technical team
- Experience writing tests: unit integration end-to-end and canaries - as well as writing testable business code

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Expertise in TypeScript Python and/or Java
- Past experience using Amazon Web Services (CloudFormation Lambda S3 DynamoDB)
- Excited about working in a diverse group and contributing to an inclusive culture
- Conversational Japanese preferred

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