Description

Amazon's External Fulfillment Technology enables Amazon businesses and third party sellers and warehouse providers to run Fulfillment Centers (FCs) leveraging Amazon's expertise in fulfillment planning and optimization. Our team is chartered with making the Amazon Fulfillment Tech's WMS (Warehouse Management Systems) accessible and flexible for emerging markets and businesses.

Our WMS enables fulfillment of millions of items WW each day. We are investing in several new initiatives to scale our platforms, including building next generation external fulfillment solutions that expand our current footprint across third party-managed warehouses as well as Amazon fulfillment network.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer who is passionate about building scalable systems in our space. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with other senior engineers within Fulfillment Tech and supply chain optimization. You will solve for architectural challenges in making large volumes of constantly changing data available to various applications owned by diverse customers (internal and external) and business use cases, as well as innovative solutions for managing data quality and in complex event processing. You will be empowered to think big and invent on behalf of our customers, make high judgment calls to keep teams moving and find simple solutions to hard problems. You will leverage your engineering skills and expertise across multiple initiatives, as well as go own large projects where you get to dive deep to solve. You will influence senior business and technical leaders to deliver these critical business goals through our solutions.

Key job responsibilities

• You will be part of a team of engineers that build solutions in fulfillment tech.

• You will learn how to build robust solutions that operate at Amazon scale, and work with senior technical leaders to grow your skills.

• You will design and implement scalable solutions and solve complex problems

• You will mentor and coach junior software developers

• You should be a great communicator and should be motivated to achieve results in a fast-paced, and at times ambiguous, environment

• You should be a self-starter with a bias towards independent problem solving.

A day in the life

• Participate in the design, implementation, and deployment of successful internet-scale systems and services in support of our fulfillment operations and the businesses they support.

• Participate in the definition of secure, scalable, and low-latency services and efficient physical processes.

• Work in expert cross-functional teams delivering on demanding projects.

• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.

• Understand system interdependencies and limitations.

• Share knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team

Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.

External Fulfillment

AFT’s External Fulfillment team builds flexible, scalable solutions specifically designed for the needs of Amazon’s emerging markets and businesses.

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.