Software Development Engineer, Global Purchasing Program

Ever wondered how Amazon is using its global presence to offer the best Amazon experience to its international customers? The Global Purchasing Program (GPP) Org acquires inventory in bulk from manufacturers, vendors, and sellers and makes them available in international Amazon marketplaces. This involves continuously enhancing the customer experience in the respective marketplace by expanding selection, reducing delivery times, and costs. Given our rapid growth and this huge opportunity, we are applying innovative solutions to solve complex business problems. Do you like working on projects that are highly visible and closely tied to Amazon's profitability and growth? Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation leveraging the scalability and innovation of Amazon's AWS cloud services? Do you want to pave the future for Amazon selling partners, enhancing how we do business globally? If so, the Global Purchasing Program (GPP) is seeking a Software Development Engineer who wants to stretch both their technical abilities and their business know-how to implement creative global solutions and act as a leader of leaders.

Our mission is to provide a one-stop shopping experience to international customers that includes:

• Building solutions that reach millions of new customers all over the world, providing them with a world-class shopping experience
• Driving customer experience technology for supporting customers all over the world
• Working closely with the business to define the expansion strategy and figure out innovative solutions to help this thriving business continue its exponential growth

It is through our innovative solutions that we seek to delight our global customers by offering relevant and rich selection of products and reducing delivery times.

Key job responsibilities

Software Development & Implementation

• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code
• Build scalable microservices and APIs
• Implement error handling and logging
• Contribute to code reviews and testing
• Debug and resolve production issues

System Design & Architecture

• Design and develop distributed system components
• Create efficient database schemas and queries
• Integrate with AWS cloud services
• Optimize application performance
• Implement security best practices

Technical Collaboration

• Work within agile development teams
• Participate in design discussions and code reviews
• Document technical solutions and APIs
• Mentor junior developers when needed
• Communicate technical concepts effectively

A day in the life

The bulk of an average day is centered around designing and building new features/services and enhancing existing solutions.

• Working on ad-hoc requests and bug fixes
• Participating in doc reviews with product managers and stakeholders
• Supporting and delegating tickets while on-call
• Team meetings and presentations/learning sessions

About the team

Our team, GPP-Tech, enjoys a transparent, collaborative and rewarding culture. We pride ourselves on having an open and ongoing dialogue with our stakeholders including business and Product teams to build trust and innovate on behalf of our eventual customers. Someone who joins this team will be engaged with engineers and stakeholders dedicated to supporting our Emerging Country Growth businesses; focusing on delivery optimization and emerging business needs with a balance of scrappy vs long term supported solutions.

• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development 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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.