Software Development Engineer, Amazon Regulatory and Trade Services

ARTS Tech is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer interested in disrupting the way products are bought, sold, and distributed on a global scale. The right candidate will have hands-on involvement in building new tools, services, and distribution structures across Amazon s growing footprint. The products and capabilities enabled by this role will deliver unprecedented selection and prices across Amazon s 100MM+ customers, while innovating beyond established supply chain norms. The right candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with interactions across a wide variety of e-commerce topics, and will demonstrate competence in multiple fields and skill sets.

At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth and enable products that meet our customers needs and demands while providing a safe experience throughout. To reach there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, dynamic, and dedicated individuals. Are you excited to help Amazon grow product selection across the globe?

Are you interested in making cross border movement of products seamless for our customers and Amazon? Are you excited to develop solutions for regulatory agencies globally? Are you ready to take on the challenges and excitement of working on greenfield projects? If so, ARTS team is working to enable some of the complex and challenging cross-border solutions to customers globally.
In this role, you will gain the opportunity to interact and work with emerging businesses at Amazon from inception through growth phases. You will also gain strategic insights into evolving and mature compliance businesses.

Key job responsibilities
A successful candidate will have a track record of navigating successfully through ambiguity, gathering business requirements and creating data solutions that have measurable customer impact, and demonstrating exemplary written and verbal communication skills. The candidate will have to set the right vision, strategy, and roadmap and work alongside stakeholders in the organization to make it happen. The candidate knows and loves working with business intelligence tools, can model multidimensional datasets, and can partner effectively with business leaders to answer key business questions. The data engineer will need to be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, and be able to lead a team to innovate and think big while diving deep to meet our bar for quality and accuracy.

1. Define, design, and implement multi-tier distributed software applications.
2. Understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
3. Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, and adherence to development goals and principles.
4. Must be able to independently design code and test major features, as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes.
5. Must be able to effectively collaborate in a fast paced environment with multiple teams in a large organization (software development, QA, Project/Release Management, Build and Release, etc. , ).
6. Provide on-call production support for applications.



A day in the life
1. Help define the system architecture, own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall experience.
2. Collaborate closely with Business stakeholders, UX designers, and other SDE team members to help define the scope of the product.
3. As an early team member, you will be responsible for technical problem solving, creatively meeting product objectives, and developing best practices.
4. You will need to demonstrate cross-functional resource interaction to accomplish your goals.
5. Write high-quality, efficient, testable code in Java and other object-oriented languages.
6. Design Amazon scale tools to facilitate internal business.
7. Build highly available, secure, and Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry.
8. Mentor other developers and participate in Hiring and developing the best talent.
9. Find out what it takes to engineer systems for the "Amazon Scale".
10. Design and build highly available, durable, and flexible systems to enable Cross Border Compliance at scale.
11. Own and operate the systems that you build based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements.
12. Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as a member of a Scrum team.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers truly enjoy mentoring more junior engineers and engineers from non-traditional backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

About the team
The mission of Amazon Regulatory and Trade Services (ARTS) Tech is to facilitate the secure, lawful, and efficient transportation of products, software, and technology (e. g. , deemed exports ) across international borders. This involves tasks such as assigning trade and import classifications, providing estimated duties and import costs, determining export/import restrictions, and ensuring product safety and compliance with regulations. ARTS Tech is responsible for end-to-end maintenance and development across a broad and complex suite of solutions and services that cater to the global trade and direct import product compliance space, with GTS being its core business. ARTS customers include internal Amazon Consumer businesses (e. g. , direct imports, core exports, global store, private brands), non-inventory (e. g. , Prime Air, Devices, Robotics, OTS and Physical Stores Tech), as well as external customers such as seller partners, vendors, customs brokers, carriers, and freight forwarders. - 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