Senior Software Engineer

Amazon India Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Now is seeking a Sr Software Engineer to serve as the senior technical leader for the Selection domain. You will own the architecture, set engineering directions, and drive end-to-end design decisions that scale across hundreds of stores in India.

This role focuses on building the right assortment, catalog, and store operations experience with high reliability and performance. You will mentor engineers, partner with product and operations teams, and uphold operational excellence including

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years programming with at least one language.
• 5+ years leading design/architecture of systems.
• Experience as a mentor or tech lead.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years full SDLC, coding standards, reviews, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and architecture for Selection across stores and catalogs.
• Provide senior technical oversight across store launches, catalog and selection, inventory, picking, staging, and store operations.
• Architect systems to onboard new stores rapidly and scale to hundreds of stores with low latency.
• Lead the hardest design decisions end-to-end and establish patterns for the team.
• Mentor engineers, raise the technical bar, and promote engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with product, operations, and business teams to translate problems into durable technical solutions.
• Champion CI/CD, monitoring, on-call, design reviews, and high-quality deliverables.

Skills

Software development experience

Programming languages

System design leadership

Mentorship / tech lead

SDLC experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Sr Software Engineer, Amazon Now

Amazon Now Amazon is building India's Quick Commerce offering — Amazon Now — delivering everyday essentials to customers in minutes. We build world-class technology that powers store launches at scale, curates hyper-local selection, and drives seamless operations across our network. We are looking for a seasoned Software Development Engineer to serve as the senior technical leader for the team, owning the architecture and engineering direction across all of our charters — with a primary focus on the Selection experience: how we curate, manage, and scale the right assortment for every customer, in every city. This is a high-impact role where your technical decisions directly fuel Amazon Now's expansion across India. You will set the technical bar for the team, drive the hardest design problems end-to-end, and multiply the impact of every engineer around you.

Key job responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and architecture for Selection — curating city-specific assortments, managing per-store catalogs, and simplifying the experience of listing and onboarding new items at scale
• Provide senior technical oversight across all of the team's charters — store launches, catalog and selection, inventory, picking, staging, and store operations — ensuring architectural coherence across them
• Architect systems that onboard new stores rapidly across cities, and that scale reliably to hundreds of stores while maintaining low operational latencies
• Lead the hardest design decisions end-to-end: evaluate trade-offs, simplify complexity, and set patterns the rest of the team builds on
• Mentor and coach engineers, raise the technical bar, and drive adoption of engineering best practices across the team
• Partner closely with product, operations, and business teams to translate ambiguous, complex business problems into durable technical solutions
• Champion operational excellence (CI/CD, monitoring, on-call), lead design reviews, and own a high quality bar for all deliverables

A day in the life

You’ll review operational metrics to ensure system health across live stores, unblock engineers on their toughest technical challenges, and dive deep into system designs — weighing trade-offs and cutting complexity. You’ll lead design reviews across the team's charters, mentor engineers on architecture patterns, and shape deployment plans for features rolling out across multiple cities, ensuring rollback strategies, monitoring, and alarms are in place before launch. As a senior, you’ll help set technical direction and priorities, with Selection as your primary canvas.

About the team

Amazon Now builds the technology behind India's Quick Commerce experience — from the moment a store goes live, to how selection is curated for each neighborhood, to how every order is picked and staged for delivery in minutes. We work at the intersection of technology and physical retail, solving hard problems in real-time inventory, catalog and selection management, store automation, and partner enablement. Our work reaches millions of customers who count on us for everyday essentials, fast. This role is the senior technical anchor of the team, setting architectural direction across every charter we own — with Selection as the primary focus. It's a rare scope: deep ownership of one of our most important problem spaces, combined with technical influence across the whole team.

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Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

Experience Level Senior Level