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Amazon Software Development Engineer II in Dallas, Texas
Description
Are you an experienced software engineer passionate about building scalable, enterprise-level systems, there by building an experience that delights millions of customers around the globe? We are looking for a senior engineer who can play a key role in building solutions for the perfect order experience team. In addition to technical expertise, you will invest time to understand the needs of the business, the data behind it, and how to transform information into technical solutions that allow the business to take action. Ideal candidates will have expertise with all phases of the application development life cycle and in building models that scale over time while balancing accuracy, flexibility, and speed.
As part of the Trusted Order and Remediation Experience (TORX) team, our vision is to protect buyers from bad ordering experiences by taking remedial actions so that we delight buyers even in the presence of a defect i.e. when something goes wrong with an order, such as an item never arriving or arriving different from expectations. We work to ensure that the issues are resolved as quickly and as painlessly as possible. Our work has tremendous impact and influences customers' ordering lifecycle and builds customer and seller trust in Amazon. The goal is to enable customers to feel confident in making purchases from Amazon 3P sellers and match customers to the best performing sellers to reduce any negative order experiences.
We are looking for a highly motivated SDE with strong leadership skills to help build our vision and improve systems to cater to ever increasing scale. Come join us to use your strong leadership skills to build this young team and products with immense visibility and impact on Amazon's business.
Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
Write high quality distributed system software
Perform development and maintenance of key system features
Drive best practices and engineering excellence
Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules.
Establish architectural principles, selecting design patterns and mentor team members on their projects and growth areas
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Dallas, TX, USA
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 language
Preferred 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
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.