Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies - External Fulfillment (Luxembourg)

Have you ever ordered a product from Amazon and been amazed at how fast you receive it? Every day, Amazon engineers are relentlessly working to decrease the time between clicking and delivery for our customers. The Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) organization owns all of the software and infrastructure that powers Amazon’s world-class fulfillment centers, including the fundamental data and services that drive our catalog and inventory systems. AFT builds and operates the software, hardware, and processes that run the global network of fulfillment centers. These systems underlie everything we do – tens of millions of items in the catalog, hundreds of millions of items of inventory, and billions of transactions each year!

AFT is at the forefront of combining HCD, technology, process optimizations, workflow models, sensors etc. to solve complex operational and fulfillment problems. 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 leverage cutting edge technologies in big data, optimization techniques, machine learning, real time analytics and high volume, low latency, 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 - come and be a part of Amazon's amazing growth story!

Our team is looking for top-notch software developers who love listening to our customers, working as a team, and proactively taking the lead whenever necessary. Our mission is to innovate and build scalable and robust software solutions that deliver a great customer experience. These software solutions will directly impact Amazon’s customers from product selection and order placement, to delivering products to our customers as quickly and cost effectively as possible. 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 to optimize physical processes, and be willing to occasionally travel to Amazon fulfillment centers around the world. If you are a strong software engineer with a wide range of skills and interests then we want to talk to you.


Key job responsibilities
Our team is looking for top-notch software developers who love listening to our customers, working as a team, and proactively taking the lead whenever necessary. Our mission is to innovate and build scalable and robust software solutions that deliver a great customer experience. These software solutions will directly impact Amazon’s customers from product selection and order placement, to delivering products to our customers as quickly and cost effectively as possible.

What you’ll do?
· Participate in the design, implementation, and deployment of successful internet-scale systems and services in support of our fulfillment operations and the businesses they support.
· Participate in the definition of secure, scalable, and low-latency services and efficient physical processes.
· Work with cross-functional teams delivering on demanding projects.
· Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
· Understand system inter dependencies and limitations.
· Share knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.

Basic Qualifications

  • Programming experience in Java and deep understanding of object-oriented design.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
  • At least 3+ years work experience in a related field
  • Solid expertise in data structures and algorithms
  • Experience with relational and non-relational databases
  • Strong problem solving and analytical abilities
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills and an ability to work in a team environment
  • Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable; highly available systems

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with building distributed systems
  • Obsession with quality, operational excellence, and customer experience
  • Strong problem solving skills with understanding of heuristics and workflow based systems
  • Experience with Scrum or other agile development methodologies
  • Development experience of using primary Amazon Web Services e.g. Amazon S3 and DynamoDB
  • Unix or Linux experience
  • Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts.
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