Senior SDE, ARCX
DESCRIPTION
* Do you want to ensure an auto part will fit a customer's vehicle? And a phone cover will fit a customer's phone?
* Do you want to be part of evolution of buying experience for Amazon products w.r.t. their fitment?
* Do you want to scale an ever-growing catalog of vehicles and parts so as to cater to various unique use-cases across Amazon?
* Do you want to take on very ambiguous problems? If you answered yes to these questions, we have a dream job for you.
The Amazon Retail Compatibility Experience (ARCX) team is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join us as we strive to create the best in-class Compatibility experience on Amazon for our customers globally.
As a Sr. Software Development Engineer, you will lead the design, implementation, and delivery of software in ambiguous and complex problem spaces. You will be working with an assorted set of stakeholders across organization such as product and program management teams and UX teams. You will influence the technology decisions that will drive future products and features that directly affect our growth in this critical space.
Key job responsibilities
* Provide system-wide view and design guidance, and drive engineering best practices and set standards for other engineers in the team
* Work with product management and cross-functional teams to build and ship technical solutions for the best customer experiences
*Break down complex software project into parallel work that can be performed by you and other SDEs and then reassembled successfully into a cohesive launch
*Participate in the hiring process as well as mentor others - improving their skills, their knowledge of your software, and their ability to get things done.
A day in the life
As a Sr. Software Development Engineer, you will lead the design, implementation, and delivery of software in ambiguous and complex problem spaces. You will be working with an assorted set of stakeholders across organization such as product, program management, and UX teams and will influence the technology decisions that will drive future products and features that directly affect our growth in this critical space.
About the team
ARCX drives compatibility across products in Amazon retail globally, and delivers experiences associated with fitment of car/bike parts, consumer electronic products etc. We have direct accountability for Automotive US, CA, MX while supporting the automotive experience worldwide. The ARCX team is split between multiple locations; US (Seattle) and India (Bangalore, Gurugram and Noida). We share roadmap responsibilities and alternate between working on separate projects to collaborating all together on larger deliverables.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 8+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ 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