Software Development Engineer II, Amazon

We are from India Grocery and Everyday Essentials team. We are working on a grounds up initiative for an upcoming and fast growing e-commerce space in India. We are developing a completely brand new e-commerce experience using client side rendering frameworks based on ReactJS and powered by multiple backend services being developed grounds up. The new user experience will span across entire lifecycle of e-commerce shopping journey from storefront, ordering and delivery experience.
For this Greenfield initiative, youll 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 grocery. The team follows a flexible and collaborative work culture with ample mentoring and guidance from PEs. 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. - 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