Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) is a service purchased by third party sellers worldwide to have Amazon store and then pack, ship, and provide customer service for their products.
The FBA team is responsible for the science, business, and operations of the core systems, algorithms, and seller-facing tools and workflows of the FBA service.
These enable FBA sellers to enroll selection, plan and inbound product, and manage and action inventory in Amazon fulfillment network - managing through the full inventory lifecycle.
FBA Inventory Planning Org includes Seller Planning experience, replenishment planning, inventory health management, value recovery options, recommendations, efficacy of recommendations, removal workflow, inventory insights, Seller Adoption and Engagement.
Key job responsibilities
Our systems are built entirely in-house, and are on the cutting edge for automating large-scale business, inventory planning and optimization.
We work with some of the best research scientists and software developers in the industry.
This role might be for you if
- You architect systems involving heterogenous and large scale data processing components like Big data jobs and Machine learning / economic and optimization models, workflow orchestration and dependency management.
- You have designed, refactored, re-architected, deprecated and / or implemented large-scale cloud-based distributed services with millisecond latency and ultra-high transactional volumes.
- You use object-oriented design concepts to program large multi-tier systems. You have working knowledge of common and useful design patterns.
- You have experience implementing best practices in improving team coding culture subjected related to quality and / or security.
Effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions to non-technical audiences.
In this job, you will
- Experiment with whatever technology we need to get the job done.
- Use Lean Software Development concepts such as Agile, Scrum and Kanban.
- Use Test-Driven Development and Continuous Deployment.
- Work with Senior and Principal Engineers, Researchers, and Data Engineers across multiple teams to design a new platform for optimizing supply chain management
- Expand and optimize our world-class supply chain systems to support a variety of emerging business initiatives.
- Automate third party supply management systems and break new ground to drive inventory across Amazon marketplaces.
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