Software Dev Engineer II, Cross Border Tech

Software Dev Engineer II, Cross Border Tech

Are you interested in building next generation services that will re-define international trade at Amazon? Do you want to improve how shoppers around the world discover and purchase global merchandise? Amazon Exports and Expansion is building new services responsible for enhancing the international shopping experience. Global Store (GS) and Core Exports (CE), together, enable cross‑border (XB) shopping for Amazon customers worldwide. CE serves cross‑border customers in 200+ destinations and shopping on 11 Exports‑enabled stores by providing access to 177M+ products at competitive prices, with a localized shopping experience, and a reliable and accurate delivery experience. GS complements the local flywheel in 14 countries across 59 source‑destination pairs (arcs), creating an integrated experience, enabling customers to shop Amazon’s international selection on their local Amazon or 3P website. GS abstracts XB fulfillment processes to make it seamless for customers to shop for Amazon’s international selection while rendering a fully localized experience with access to competitive pricing in local currency, cross border DEX, C‑returns, exclusive deals and promotions, local payment methods and local customer service.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Solve complex problems through data, rapidly.
• Design and develop state‑of‑the‑art software systems that address these complex and ambiguous problems.
• Own the inputs and the business outcome through cultivating a culture of relentless auditing and metric monitoring, automatically where possible.

This position is ideal for candidates who are looking to deal with scaling challenges at Amazon and ready to build mission‑critical system software applications and tools. It is also an opportunity for freelance candidates to become domain experts and have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture and development of consumer products. Depending on individual performance this experience can lead to permanent positions as Software Development Engineers at Amazon.

A day in the life

As a Software Development Engineer on the team, you will take ownership over the software design, documentation, development, engineering approach, delivery, and support of systems built natively in AWS. In this role you will collaborate with leaders, work backward from customers, identify problems, propose innovative solutions, relentlessly raise standards, and have a huge impact by disrupting the way products are bought, sold and distributed on Amazon on a global scale. The role involves building new tools, services and distribution structures across Amazon’s growing footprint to deliver unprecedented selection for global customers while complying with Global Trade and Product Compliance requirements. You will thrive in a fast‑paced, ambiguous environment with interactions across a wide variety of e‑commerce topics, and will demonstrate competence in multiple fields and skill sets.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ 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

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

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