Software Development Engineer II

SDE II, Amazon Exports and Expansions

Description

Are you interested in building next generation experiences that will re-define international trade at Amazon? Do you want to improve how shoppers around the world discover and purchase global merchandise? Amazon Exports and Expansion is building new experiences responsible for customers globally. Our mission is to provide a one-stop shopping experience to international customers that includes:
• Build solutions that reach millions of new customers and sellers all over the world, providing them with a localized experience
• Drive innovation in customer experience technology
• Work closely with the business to define the expansion strategy and figure out innovative solutions to help this thriving business continue to its growth

Key job responsibilities
- Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.
- Responsible for portions of the systems architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance. Build new software services and tools from scratch and improve existing systems
- Create simple solutions for complex business and operational problems. Build robust solutions that operate at Amazon scale
- Design systems, take mission critical decisions on how we design production systems, what technology to use and how to solve problems
- Lead software developers in design, implementation and operations
- Be very hands-on, participate in designs, reviews and develop code
- Real-time operational support of the team’s functional areas
- Must be able to work with minimal technical supervision and supplemental engineering support, while responding efficiently to multiple program priorities
- Work with senior technical leaders to review and improve your designs and solutions
- Works well in a team environment and be able to effectively drive cross-team solutions that have complex dependencies and requirements



A day in the life
High-level designs, cross-team alignment, long-term architectural roadmap and technical strategy, understanding the business domain and proposing solutions to address customer and business problems, helping scope and analyze product requirements, mentorship, reviewing CRs, writing high-quality code to be an example for the team.

About the team
International Expansions team launches Amazon in new non-footprint countries.

Basic Qualifications

- 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
- 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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