Job Description

DESCRIPTIONAmazon is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer who is passionate, innovative and have a heart for Nourishing People and the Planet. You will be working on designing and developing long term, scalable and high-impact programs within the Worldwide Grocery Stores Tech (WWGST) organization.You are an innovator and excel in an ambiguous environment. You love starting on an ambiguous problem and carrying it through until customers can use it. You deliver quickly to customers, but never lose sight of the greater architectural goals and move the team further towards them with every incremental launch. You build the hardest thing first to de-risk the project and you solve only what we need to right now, but always keep the big picture in mind. You dive deep to understand how all customers use our products, not only your own use cases, and then invent on their behalf. You participate in setting standard for quality in the development team. Your solutions are scalable, robust, and elegant. You value creating simple solutions for complex problems see how these are the most difficult engineering challenges.You will design, develop and deploy reliable distributed solutions that operate at Amazon scale. You will work with a variety of core languages and technologies including Java, Linux, and AWS services. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and will have the opportunity to redefine an industry while working with different teams across Amazon and Whole Foods Market. Along the way, we guarantee that you\'ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on many people.You know that amazing results come from your smart, creative, empathic teammates. You actively participate in improving the team culture every day. You foster inclusion and believe giving feedback with genuine caring is how the team grows together. Your team is stronger with you in it because you make those around you better while never making them feel less.Key Attributes and Responsibilities
A successful engineer in this role is:
Highly analytical: You solve problems in ways that can be backed up with verifiable data. You focus on driving processes, tools, and statistical methods which support rational decision-making.
Team obsessed: You help grow your team members to achieve outstanding results. You foster the creative atmosphere to let engineers innovate, while holding them accountable for making smart decisions and delivering results.
You\'re ambitious, yet humble: You recognize that there\'s always opportunity for improvement and use introspection and feedback from teammates and peers to raise the bar for your team.
Engaged by ambiguity: You\'re able to explore new problem spaces with unique constraints and thus non-obvious solutions; you\'re quick to identify any gaps in the team and the right person to fill them to best deliver value to customers.You will:
Own technical vision and direction: You identify problems and develop solutions; you embrace performance metrics and measurement techniques because they help you assess how well system-related services are running.
Lead beyond your team: You will be a key part of a small but growing community of engineering leaders who support their teams and contribute to the overall growth of our product development organization. You\'ll share your experience and technical acumen in order to drive technology decisions across our organization. If you are ready to built applications to scale, working with a talented and energetic group of SDEs, this is the team for you.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ 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 teamPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ 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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