COMPLETE Sr. SDE, Flex Routing - Bellevue

Job Description

Amazon Flex delights customers by delivering millions of packages faster than ever before. We are expanding our service rapidly to new geographies and products from groceries to big-screen TVs in an increasingly complex network. We recently launched the ability to have Amazon products delivered to customers within the same day, purely through Flex drivers. With Amazon Flex, individuals can now be their own boss, delivering ultra-fast, sub same day orders. In the past two years, Flex has grown from delivering only Prime Now orders to additionally delivering orders from Whole Foods, Amazon.com orders and expanded to 3 new continents, increasing the scale of business by orders of magnitude. While this group continues to expand, the tech systems of this group have evolved into reusable architectures operating at hyper scale (while maintaining agility and being nimble to change) that can cater to the anticipated growth of this business over the next few years. While the needs can be short term, the group focusses on building product and designing tech systems for the long term. Come join us in taking Flex to the next generation and help shape the future of retail and delivery at scale! Our technology group is responsible for designing and implementing software that makes the delivery of these items possible in one hour or less. We are building software that predicts, plans, schedules, routes and executes on the speedy promise in a cost effective manner. You will learn about real-time adaptive solutions, routing algorithms and optimizations, operating on large scale datasets, mobile development and more. We are looking for talented SDEs to design and build these new systems. You will work on hard problems at scale and will have autonomy to deliver.

Our engineers are top-notch software developers who love listening to the customers, working as a team, and proactively taking the lead whenever necessary. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating and delivering software solutions for the new program. In this role, you will have an opportunity to own design and development of various services. You will have influence on system design and help build a team culture around practices that are critical to a quality product. Your work would be cross-functional, involving partnering with other teams in Amazon, including , fulfillment, research science, and finance teams to apply optimization and machine learning to solve real-world problems. You will own and deliver a hugely impactful system to Amazon customers and Flex drivers (tens of thousands of Flex drivers will deliver billions of Amazon packages to millions of Amazon customers). We are looking for someone with a go-getter attitude who is ready to own a problem and passionately drive successful implementation. We want someone who is a quick learner and ready to learn and adopt the latest techniques in computer science.

As the technical leader in the team, you will have influence over the long term strategic needs of the team, the short term tactical wins and the tradeoffs between them. You will lead other team members and projects on creating robust, scalable design, own development of critical path code while leading processes that improve quality and reduce operational load on the team. As a person with a high technical bar, you will participate in people development and hiring, ensuring we're hiring the right type of people for the team's long term needs.

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

Bellevue, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications:

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications:

- 5+ 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $134,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.