Software Development Engineer, Last Mile Planning

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

Job summary

A leading company in logistics technology is seeking a Software Development Engineer for Last Mile Planning to enhance routing systems. The candidate will work on complex algorithms and contribute to innovative software solutions that impact deliveries on a global scale. Successful applicants are experienced in software development and are driven by solving challenging problems in collaborative environments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience.
• Experience in design patterns, reliability and scaling.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language.

Responsibilities

• Develop software components for routing and planning solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance delivery systems.
• Ensure high standards for software quality and maintainability.

Skills

Software development

Problem-solving

Coding standards

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Last Mile Planning

The Routing and Planning (RaP) organization, within the Last Mile Technology (LMT) organization, plays a pivotal role in Amazon's mission to deliver packages to billions of customers worldwide. Our goal is to create the most efficient, reliable, and high-quality route plans for our drivers while ensuring safe, low-touch, and high-throughput solutions for operations. We’re challenged to constantly improve and innovate on our routing and planning software to support Amazon's promise of fast and reliable deliveries. The technology that are developed by our teams include a wide breadth of solutions from Machine Learning (ML) and Operations Research-based routing and planning algorithms, in-house maps and navigation platform, IoT and hardware innovations, doorstep delivery experience, and the consumer grade native mobile apps that brings all these experiences together.

Key job responsibilities
As an SDE-2, you will develop a deep understanding of our business, work closely with development teams and own the architecture and end-to-end delivery of software components. We are looking for someone who loves solving hard problems in a collaborative environment, has high standards for quality and maintainability, and is looking to grow into a space where they can have high impact on customers. You will work with other engineers on our team and in adjacent teams, as well as with research scientists, senior engineers, and product managers, to develop software to automatically create the best package plans, which are used all over the globe, multiple times, every day.

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
- 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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