Software Development Engineer II, IN H&B

IN H&B (Heavy and Bulky) team owns end to end customer experience for Heavy and Bulky categories ( Large appliances, Television and Furniture ) in terms of discovery, fulfillment and post fulfillment operations. This tech team plays pivotal role in Amazon India s success, with the mission to build tailor-made solutions for H&B category by building solutions for regionalised fulfillment network to provide special handling/ installation services, improve network speed in a cost sustainable approach and improve seller margin by offering regional pricing. This is a rare opportunity to be part of a team that will be responsible for building a successful, sustainable and strategic business for Amazon, from the ground up!

The ideal candidate will be instrumental in shaping the product direction and will be actively involved in defining key product features that impact the business. You will work with Senior Engineers at Amazon to evolve the design and architecture of the products owned by this team. You will be responsible to set up and hold a high software quality bar besides providing technical direction to a highly technical team of Software Engineers. You are comfortable managing competing priorities and are able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios. Maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role. You are data-driven and analytical. You can clearly & effectively communicate (written as well as verbally) across organisation.

In this role, you will own solutions from design and execution through deployment and support, using the best of available tools, including AWS EC2, SNS/ SQS, Dynamo DB, Sable, Redshift, Lambda, Kinesis, CloudFront, ElasticSearch, Big Data, Machine Learning, Android, iOS, Amazon Horizonte, Datapath, Amazon API, JavaScript and React JS etc. You will be responsible for holding the code quality high, even as we optimise our development processes to better serve our customers, and will be expected to mentor and guide junior engineers. Most importantly, you should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where delivery of new products and features is very rapid.

Key job responsibilities
- As a member of the team, you will spend your time as a hands-on engineer and a technical leader who takes ownership of business/technical problem end to end. You will play a key role in defining the architecture for software using a wide range of technologies, programming languages and systems. You will be given the freedom to explore your own ideas with the reward of seeing your code raise the bar for millions of Amazon customers worldwide, including your own family and friends.

- You will interface with product manager & stakeholders to understand the business requirements. You will author detailed design covering process/data flow diagrams, key trade-offs, technology & cost considerations that you will review with your team s SDEs/Sr. SDEs as well as impacted upstream/downstream interface SDEs/Sr. SDEs to incorporate feedback resulting in well thought out high quality designs.


- You will engage in design reviews within team as well as within org with aim of providing feedback to elevate the quality of designs. You will engage in various team ceremonies like code reviews, daily standup, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint retros, operational excellence hand-offs.

- You will actively engage in operational support for your team, and ensure that the root causes of operational issues are identified and resolved. You don t settle for the status quo, and routinely identify and execute on opportunities to improve your team s operations.
- We embrace the challenges of a fast paced market and evolving technologies, paving the way to high quality content available to readers from the first read. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be innovative, and positively impact millions of customers.

- Successful candidates for this position will have a background in Java, or C++. Equally important to these specific skills is a candidates ability to multi-task, adapt quickly to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, gain new skills, create reliable & maintainable code, and find creative, scalable solutions to difficult problems.

- The ability to communicate clearly and concisely both written and orally is a key competency as is demonstrable skill as a self-starter. We are looking for candidates who are passionate about delivering consistently to our customers, particularly those who want to grow within a world-class engineering team.

About the team
Our team cover all aspects of the customer experience, from discovery, pre and post fulfillment operations. The majority of the projects we work on are developed from scratch and are now deployed globally. We will continue to innovate and build new features to meet business and customer needs. The systems develop have a direct and immediate impact on our customers and on the company bottom line. - 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
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions