Senior Software Development Engineer

If you are a fast learner with strong technical skills and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment with high creativity and great analytical reasoning skills, you would love our team and the challenges we take forward. We are the GroceryX organization within the Worldwide Grocery Stores Tech (WWGST) organization. Our vision is to create the most-loved online grocery shopping experience that empowers every customer to achieve any grocery mission. We bring this vision to life by building and enabling consistent, convenient, snappy online grocery shopping experiences that make it easy for customers to find and get their groceries how and where they want to.

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer with established experience in architecting, designing and developing complete technical solutions for complex, ambiguous situations and requirements that has significant business value. Hands on experience in building scalable and extensible systems. With a focus on efficiency, scalability, and customer-centric solutions, the Grocery Experience team plays a strategic role in shaping the future of Amazons global grocery business.

As part of this team We re truly an agile shop: we work closely with users, deliver features with high frequency, can pivot on a dime when needed, and are passionate about test coverage, refactoring and paying off technical debt. We re looking for passionate engineers who look to continuously improve the customer experience, who are motivated by complex problems that improve the operations of our business. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to complex problems, please reach out and talk to us!


Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Software Development Engineer on the Grocery Experience team, you will:

Design and implement low-latency, scalable solutions across the tech stack, including frontend (JavaScript, CSS, hybrid frameworks), middle tier (Java, Spring), and backend (non-relational databases and AWS services). Collaborate with teams to build integrated solutions that enhance grocery operations. Work with business teams to develop localized features tailored to specific marketplaces. Continuously improve existing systems, focusing on test coverage, refactoring, and reducing technical debt. Identify and evaluate emerging technologies to solve complex operational challenges. Deliver features with agility, contributing to a highly collaborative and innovative team environment. If you are excited about solving complex problems, working across diverse teams, and driving operational excellence at a global scale, we d love to hear from you!


A day in the life
You advice Software Development Managers, Sr. Software Managers, Product Managers and other Engineers on product architecture and technical solves. You provide the architectural and technical vision for the Product / Service and lead the team technically towards the vision. You evaluate multiple technical choices and make right trade-off between short term needs and long term requirements. You mentor team members and review their artifacts. You are hands-on and take up development of complex pieces of the architecture and write code . - 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