Software Development Engineer II, AFT Flow, AFT OB&Flow

Have 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!

The AFT Flow team represents a critical vertical within our organization, with a focused mandate on orchestrating and optimizing goods movement throughout Amazon's fulfillment network. The team's core mission is to develop and implement innovative solutions that achieve optimal facility throughput by coordinating processes, labor resources, robotics, and automated systems while seamlessly integrating physical and digital operations. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to technology that directly impacts millions of customers worldwide and operates at unprecedented scale.

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.

Key job responsibilities
As an Engineer in the team, you will take part in in the architecture, design, implementation and deployment of large-scale and complex software systems. You will get to leverage your experience and expertise to deliver innovative solutions to challenging problems. You will communicate your ideas effectively to achieve the right outcome for your team and customer. You enjoy collaborating with others to increase the effectiveness of the overall team. Your code, design, and implementation decisions should set a great example to other engineers. You will also have the opportunity to impact the technical decisions in the broader organization as well as mentor other engineers in the team.

- 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

- 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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