Software Development Engineer II, Pharmacy India

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join a new team focused on building healthcare technology in India. The role involves solving complex problems in software development, collaborating with a talented team to create a best-in-class online healthcare provider. Applicants should have strong software development experience and a good grasp of design patterns.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Apply appropriate technologies and best practices to solve problems.
• Invent, design, and build stable and performant software.
• Consider the legacy of the code produced and write understandable code.

Skills

Software Development

Design Patterns

Reliability

Scaling

Programming

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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