Senior Routing Platform Engineer — Last-Mile Optimization

Amazon; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Routing Platform team is seeking a Sr. Software Development Engineer to own the design and delivery of scalable services for route planning in the Last Mile.

You will work across routing components, collaborating with product and science partners to shape architecture and deliver impactful features in a fast-paced environment. Based in Bellevue, WA, you will mentor junior engineers, define technical vision, and lead cross-functional initiatives that affect hundreds of millions of

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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product and Science partners to convert business requirements into technical design documents, detailing either the creation of new systems or the modification of existing ones.
• Lead projects aimed to deliver new business features, improve system architecture, and improve efficiency of the transportation solutions; coordinate the work of multiple engineers and navigate obstacles to ensure timely feature delivery, while taking direct ownership of coding the critical pieces of the project.
• Help define the technical vision for the team and the individual systems, and ensure the vision is being followed in day-to-day development by all engineers on the team.
• Advise principal engineers on owned systems and participate in technical design for cross-organizational initiatives.
• Mentor Junior Engineers on best software development practices, system design skills, as well as soft skills necessary to have successful careers at Amazon.
• Be the tech lead for a tiger team focused on delivering a significant feature, coordinate the work of multiple engineers and navigate obstacles to ensure timely feature delivery, while taking direct ownership of coding the critical pieces of the project.

Skills

Software development

Programming experience

Leadership

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS Step Functions

AWS Lambda

AWS Fargate

DynamoDB

S3

CloudWatch

SNS/SQS

Job description

Amazon's Routing Platform team is seeking a Sr. Software Development Engineer to own the design and delivery of scalable services for route planning in the Last Mile.

You will work across routing components, collaborating with product and science partners to shape architecture and deliver impactful features in a fast-paced environment. Based in Bellevue, WA, you will mentor junior engineers, define technical vision, and lead cross-functional initiatives that affect hundreds of millions of