Job Description

DESCRIPTIONHave you ever ordered from Amazon and been amazed at how fast you receive the shipment? Ever wondered how Amazon delivers to customers so fast and on promised time? Every day, Amazon engineers are relentlessly working to decrease the time between clicking and delivery for our customers. Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) organization owns the software and infrastructure that powers Amazon\'s world-class fulfillment centers. We build software which interfaces with the robots, machines and human associates at the warehouse and facilitate various processes that run the global network of fulfillment centers moving millions of units of inventory and ensuring customers get what they want, when promised. These systems underlie everything we do - tens of millions of items in the catalog, hundreds of millions of units of inventory, and billions of transactions each year!
This role is for the Transshipment (TransferX) team which is responsible to build core software components/services that orchestrate the movement of inventory between warehouses (IXD to FC, FC to FC, AFT & non-AFT WMS) while providing visibility on in-transit inventory, driving reconciliation of inventory as part of transfer and publishing accurate lead time to SCOT systems for high fidelity promise and planning decisions. Worldwide, the TransferX team supports 570+ FCs and enabled the transfer of 18.5 billion units in 2021 saving $1+ billion cost savings.
With rapid expansion into new geographies, innovations in supply chain, delivery models and customer experience, increasingly complex transportation network, ever expanding selection of products and growing number of shipments worldwide, we have an opportunity to build software that scales the business, leads the industry through innovation and delights millions of customers worldwide. We have challenging problems (both business and technical) that leverages new technologies that support our high volume, low latency and high availability services.
If you are looking for an opportunity to solve deep technical problems and build innovative solutions in a fast paced environment working with smart, passionate software developers, this might be the role for you. A successful candidate for this position will be able to build new software from the ground up, create pragmatic solutions for complex business problems, enjoy working closely with operations staff in Amazon fulfillment centers around the world.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.Inbound
AFT\'s Inbound team delivers innovative solutions to automatically receive and process billions of units of inventory from Amazon\'s vendors and third-party sellers worldwide, making the merchandise quickly available to Amazon customers.Key job responsibilities
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 languageAbout 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.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 languagePREFERRED 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

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