Sr. SDE, Delivery Experience

Are you interested in helping Amazon make history and redefine the meaning of ‘fast’ in eCommerce? We are the Same Day Delivery Experience team and are in the early innings of reinventing the Amazon shopping experience to make Amazon the first place customers think to shop when they need something today, wherever they are in the world. We’re looking for a Sr. Software Development Engineer for the Same Day Delivery Experience team to help ensure we have a compelling and friction-free ‘delivery in hours’ experience available to our customers, and help drive continuous innovation and improvement of the delivery experience across all phases of shopping, buying, and post purchase experience.

• Every single retail purchase placed on Amazon's retail websites uses our team’s software.

• Our systems process hundreds of millions of transactions per day.

• Our team’s work impacts millions of customers all over the world.

Key job responsibilities

• Build highly extensible software systems to meet the rapid growth of Amazon's delivery business and capabilities.
• Evolve and build services that are highly reliable and extremely low latency
• Design the direction of the checkout delivery experience working with multiple, different teams across the company
• Build the next generation systems for representing delivery choices to enable rapid experimentation for customers.

A day in the life

You will be working in a dynamic environment with a team of skilled software engineers to design and build technical solutions that meet business needs. The role involves ownership of designing new components that enhance the platform’s extensibility, scalability, availability, and latency. The team values delivering high-quality software and creating great customer experiences. We are looking for someone with experience in developing scalable, global software solutions.

About the team

We are the Same Day Delivery Experience team and are in the early innings of reinventing the Amazon shopping experience to make Amazon the first place customers think to shop when they need something today, wherever they are in the world.

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

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