Amazon's Transportation Optimization systems decides optimal path from warehouses to end customers, and supports other use cases related to transportation. It processes millions of requests per second to determine guaranteed delivery dates and optimal transportation paths to deliver millions of packages to customers worldwide faster and cheaper. Our mission critical systems make optimal decisions impacting billions of dollars a year and set new standards for online shopping experience.
With rapid expansion into new geographies, innovations in supply chain, delivery models and customer experience, increasingly complex transportation network, ever expanding selection of products and growing number of shipments worldwide, we have an opportunity to build software that scales the business, leads the industry through innovation and delights millions of customers worldwide.
We are looking for experienced Software Engineers to be a key contributor to our success and drive the strategic development of the Transportation Optimization services.
Key job responsibilities
In this job, you will…
Work in a team of experienced engineers and teams to develop efficient architecture and algorithm to fine fastest and cheapest ways to deliver packages for customer orders using milliseconds level runtime latency.
Lead upgradation of system architecture to adapt to the future needs and maximize the gain by using latest technologies.
Work to expand and optimize our world-class supply chain systems to support a variety of emerging business initiatives.
This is perfect opportunity for motivated and talented software engineers who want to apply and grow their technical depth and breadth while defining and driving key aspects of the customer experience on Amazon.com.
Our diversity, measured by diversity of thought and influenced by gender and culture, is paramount to our ability to meet the evolving needs of our customers.
Design, refactor, re-architect, deprecate and implemented large-scale services for ultra-high transactional volumes.
Heavily involvement through all phases of software development using concepts that may include Service Oriented Architecture, caching, balancing, non-relational databases, micro services, sharding, n-tiered , non-relational databases etc.
Use object-oriented concepts to program large multi-tier systems. Apply useful design patterns.
Write and review code while insisting on best practices in improving team coding culture subjects related to quality and security.
A day in the life
You will be working in a fast-paced environment, on a team of smart software engineers, to design and build the right technical solutions to meet the needs of the business with high operational standards. You will have direct ownership over the design of new components aimed at improving the platform's extensibility, scalability, availability, and latency. We care about both delighting customers and high quality software; we don’t sacrifice one for the other. We’re looking for someone with a demonstrated track record of highly-scalable, global software solutions.
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
- 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
- Solid experience of testing and a passion for producing high quality code
- Solid background in algorithms and data structures
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team to create exceptional value
- Familiar with Linux (Or Unix) environment
- Agile practices and methodologies such as Test Driven Development and Scrum
- Service-oriented architectures
- Amazon Web Services
- Relational databases and SQL
- Ideal candidates will show excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, with an enthusiastic attitude to support and resolve customer problems
- Experience with distributed systems, algorithms, and relational databases
- Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly
- Familiarity or experience with supply chain concepts
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