The Last Mile team at Amazon is responsible for delivering customer packages from delivery stations to customers' doorsteps. Amazon has expanded its Last Mile delivery efforts to accelerate customer delivery times and introduce new innovations. Working on the front lines of the Last Mile tech team allows you to have a tangible impact on the customer experience of receiving their packages. This network delivers packages, groceries, Prime Now, 3P, and Restaurant orders to homes, businesses, Amazon Lockers, and even cars across the globe. Hundreds of small businesses and tens of thousands of drivers leverage Amazon technology to deliver millions of packages to customers daily.
Key job responsibilities
This role provides a unique opportunity to be a key part in designing and developing Safety standards and features for Amazon’s delivery drivers working on a full stack platform. You will be part of an agile development process to deliver high-quality software. You will work across teams to prototype ideas and solve complex problems, and raise the bar of our applications by advocating and driving software best practices, automating tasks and identifying pitfalls. You will have the opportunity to contribute your creative ideas and energy, working with world-class experts, and distributed cloud systems. You will participate in an agile development process to deliver high-quality software. You will be tasked with designing and building technical solutions to meet the needs of the business. You will have direct ownership over the design of new components aimed at improving the platform's extensibility, scalability, availability, and latency. You will participate and collaborate in architecture and design discussions, build and support features from conception to launch. You will work with team members to investigate design approaches, prototype technology and evaluate technical feasibility. You will help to improve engineering processes and tools to increase team effectiveness. We are seeking candidates with a demonstrated track record of developing highly scalable, global software solutions.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 5+ 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
- Server-side development experience, preferably in Java and/or Scala
- Experience in AWS services (e.g: Lambda, CloudWatch, API Gateway, Dynamo DB).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Full-stack experience working on Java, Kotlin, Swift, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, React, and/or APIGW.
- Experience with big data processing and basic understanding of Applied Science
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.