Software Development Engineer II

Do you want to solve business challenges through innovative technology? Do you enjoy working on innovative, massively scalable services technology in a fast-paced team environment? Do you love working on industry defining projects that move the needle?
At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate & build things for the benefit of our customers. The high focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world's most beloved brands – it is part of our company DNA.

Our Software Development Engineers play an instrumental role in utilizing innovative technology to solve complex problems and get to see the impact of their work.

Amazon challenges are big and impact millions of customers, sellers, and countless products across the globe. Our path is not always easy so we are selective about who joins us on this journey. There is a certain kind of person who takes on software development challenges at Amazon – someone excited by the idea creating new platforms, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company whose ship cycles are measured in weeks, not years. If this is you, come build the future with us.

Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:

Innovate & design for solutions to provide world class Developer experience

Write high-quality, efficient, testable code in Java and other object-oriented languages.

Build highly available, secure, distributed systems in a micro services architecture.

Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry to work on complex challenges in large-scale computing and find out what it takes to engineer systems for "Amazon Scale"

Own and operate the systems that you build based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements.

A day in the life
The average day is focused on delivering upon our prioritized product features and collaborating with members of the team on planning and designing future features.

We gather on a daily Scrum to support each other in our work and help overcome blockers as a team.

About the team
The team owns the API endpoint that millions of selling partners around the world use to manage their business on Amazon's stores. As part of the team, you have the chance to make a significant impact on our systems, our business, and most importantly, our customers by building highly scalable, reliable, and extensible systems. If you work backward from customer needs are committed to getting things done, then explore joining our team

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 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

- 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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