Software Development Engineer, Japan Store Tech

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Software Development Engineer for its Japan Store Tech team in London. This role involves solving complex technical challenges and innovating features that enhance supply chain efficiency. Candidates should have significant software development experience and a passion for creating impactful solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with design patterns and system architecture.
• Proficient in at least one programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable distributed services.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Work collaboratively with multiple technical teams.

Skills

Design patterns

Reliability

Scaling

Object-oriented design

Programming in Java

Programming in C++

Programming in C#

Communication in English

Education

Master's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Japan Store Tech

Job ID: 2985375 | Amazon (China) Holding Company Limited

The Amazon JP Supply Chain Excellence team is seeking a talented, passionate software development engineer to create feature innovations to innovate towards the best-in-class supply chain experience to unlock faster delivery speeds, lower cost to serve, vaster selections, elevate the selling partner satisfaction and shopper experience, and foster stronger synergy between JP and WW operations.

The Supply Chain Excellence team is part of the greater Japan Store Tech, a global software development group.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer, you will help solve a variety of technical challenges and work with a team of extremely talented engineers. Given that we explore new and exciting areas, you will play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables and build quick prototypes or proofs of concept. You will help invent new features, design systems, develop and deploy highly scalable and reliable distributed services. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of our initiatives, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that, frankly, haven’t been solved at scale before. Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of customers.

If you are excited about this opportunity to own and solve complex problems, work with a creative dynamic team, and have passion to build features that millions of customers would love to use, we want to hear from you.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Ability to communicate in English

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

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

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