Software Development Engineer II, IN Pharmacy

Amazon; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Bengaluru is seeking a software engineer with 3+ years of experience to join a greenfield initiative focused on healthcare tech. You will ship software early and often, collaborating with Sr. SDEs, FEEs, and PEs to build a capable, scalable shopping experience from scratch.

The role emphasizes fast learning, best practices, and strong ownership in a dynamic, customer-focused environment within a team that values collaboration and high standards.

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.
• 2+ years of building complex software systems experience.

Responsibilities

• Solve difficult problems using appropriate technologies and best practices.
• Design and build software that is stable and performant with your team.
• Be proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when to use them.
• Write code that is understandable by others unfamiliar with the system.
• Minimize short-term workarounds and avoid unnecessary complexity.
• Create flexible software without over-engineering and judiciously manage dependencies.
• Be efficient with resources (hardware, memory, CPU) and collaborate with customers and peers.

Skills

Software development

Architectural design

Programming language

Complex systems

Education

Bachelors in CS or equivalent

Job description

Description

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

• 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.

About the team

We are fast-paced and focussed team made of passionate and ambitious Amazonians who strive to build industry leading products while closely collaborating and having fun. The team is made of multiple Sr. SDEs and are working on first time in Amazon initiatives which will scale beyond India and pharmacy.

The team follows a flexible and collaborative work culture with ample mentoring and guidance from senior leaders. The team values high ownership, bias for action and insist on highest standards and follows build fast and iterate fast methodology. The team is suitable for passionate engineers who are equally interested in contributing to business and product roadmap while building high-performing and scalable systems.

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
• 2+ years of building complex software systems experience

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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