Software Development Engineer II, Pharmacy India

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Software Development Engineer II for its new healthcare initiative in India, focusing on building industry-leading technology solutions. This role encompasses software development, problem-solving, and collaboration within a skilled team. Candidates should possess strong experience in software design and development, especially in innovative sectors.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years design or architecture experience in software systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Solve difficult problems and apply appropriate technologies.
• Invent and design software that is stable and performant.
• Consider the legacy of code and minimize incidental complexity.

Skills

Problem Solving

Software Development

Design Patterns

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer II, Pharmacy India

Our 3 year vision is to be the best-in-class online Healthcare provider in India. Amit Agarwal, SVP India recently said, “In Amazon India’s next five year vision – serving healthcare needs for India is one of the largest opportunity to serve customers in a critical sector as we build on our mission to transform how India buys and sells". India-first innovations in the Healthcare space is a priority investment for Amazon in India.

Are you excited by the challenge of building and scaling new businesses? Do you love to ship software early and often? Do you want to work on greenfield ML/GenAI initiatives? Do you feel passionate about opportunity to serve customers on something as critical as best in class Healthcare to conveniently get access to top doctors, prescription medicines and ability to get lab tests within minutes or at a time of choice. We are a new team building India-first technology to solve for Healthcare needs for India customers.

For this Greenfield initiative, you'll be working alongside a talented and collaborative team made of Sr. SDEs, Sr. FEEs, PEs and will be a great opportunity for learning, growing and building industry leading shopping experience from scratch.
Key job responsibilities

Key job responsibilities
- You solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
- You work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant.
- You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them (and when it is not). Your solutions are pragmatic.
- You consider the legacy of the code you produce and write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand.
- You limit the use of short-term workarounds. You do things with the proper level of complexity the first time (or at least minimize incidental complexity).
- You create flexible software without over-engineering. You make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies.
- You are efficient with resource usage (e.g., system hardware, database, memory/CPU, etc.)
- You work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders, and peers

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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
- 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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