Software Development Engineer - II, Amazon Autos

ABOUT THIS ROLE
Software Development Engineer working on global scale problems using cloud based micro-services architecture, comfortable with Amazon retail services, having extensive experience with new technologies powered by Amazon AWS. ABOUT THE TEAM
Were on a journey to build Amazon Auto - a program to define car buying experience on Amazon! Come join our team and build new discovery and shopping products. Were looking for a talented and motivated Software Development Engineer to join our team of builders, product managers, designers, principals to design and build innovative auto-shopping experiences for our customers across the world. This is a great opportunity for an experienced engineer to design and implement the technology for a new Amazon business which is flagship program for S-team. Desired candidate will design, implement and deliver innovative solutions end-end. You will contribute to culture of innovation, quality and customer obsession which is hallmark of Amazon. ABOUT YOU
You re a problem solver. A fast-paced environment fuels your creativity - not to mention your team who inspire you.Through plenty of practice you ve mastered how to translate even the most complex ideas in a simple and digestible way. While you ve dabbled in a few programming languages, your heart is always with Kotlin or Java. But you re adaptable, enterprising, and ready to take ownership of your next project. As a SDE-2 in this team, you will Own key components within our platform. ""Owning"" means envisioning, designing, creating, building, and supporting
Design, develop and maintain our Android mobile applications
Work with team members to investigate design approaches, prototype technology and evaluate technical feasibility
Lead the way - ""Lead"" means staying up to date with tools, trends, technologies, and frameworks both industry-wide and within Amazon, and sharing that knowledge in a meaningful way with the community
Partner with product management to imagine, design, develop, test, and launch software that invigorates our community and inspires our peers
Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
Adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations
Lead architecture and design of features, from conception to launch
Help to improve engineering processes and tools to increase team effectiveness
Be part of an agile development process to deliver high-quality software
Work with cross-functional, geographically diverse development teams through design, delivery and support
Awareness of Amazon Search backend services will be desirable
- Programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 3-5 years of experience in software development
- Bachelor s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related discipline
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytic and problem solving skills - 3-5 years of software development experience
- Experience building excellent high volume and highly scalable web services
- Experience building highly available systems and operating 24x7 services
- Experience with distributed systems, consistent hashing, distributed locking, replication, and load balancing