Software Development Engineer, Emerging Country Growth

Ever wondered how Amazon is using its Global presence to offer best of Amazon experience to its international customers? Emerging Country Growth Org acquires inventory in bulk from manufacturers, vendors and sellers and make 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 cutting edge technology to solve complex business problems.

Do you like working on projects that are highly visible and are tied closely to Amazon’s profitability and growth? Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation leveraging the scalability and innovation with Amazon's AWS cloud services?

Do you want to pave the future for Amazon Retail, enhancing how we do business globally? If so, Emerging Country Growth 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 :

• Build solutions that reach millions of new customers all over the world, providing them with a world class shopping experience
• Drive customer experience technology for supporting customers all over the world
• Work closely with the business to define the expansion strategy and figure out innovative solutions to help this thriving business continue to 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

As a key member of the engineering team, you will have influence on our product strategy by helping define the product features, refine system architecture, and spearhead best practices that enable a quality product.

You will be successfully setting the foundation for the next phase of the product and beyond. A commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements.

Creating a reliable, scalable, and high-performance service requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.

You should enjoy working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals.

A day in the life

The bulk of an average day is centered around designing and building features to enhance existing applications.

Otherwise other elements of a day that happen are :

• 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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Austin, 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
• 2+ years of building complex software systems experience
30+ days ago