Jeff Bezos, 2016 Annual Letter to Shareholders: ‘India is another example of how we globalize an offering like Marketplace through customer obsession and a passion for invention... Weʼre also globalising Fulfilment by Amazon, adapting the service to local customer needs. In India, we launched a program called Seller Flex to combine Amazonʼs logistics capabilities with sellersʼ selection at the local neighbourhood level.ʼ
Seller Flex team located in Bangalore is looking for a SDE to deliver strategic goals for Amazon eCommerce systems. This is an opportunity to join our mission to build tech solutions that empower sellers to delight the next billion customers. You will be responsible for building new system capabilities grounds up for strategic business initiatives. If you feel excited by the challenge of setting the course for large company wide initiatives and building and launching customer facing products in international locales, this may be the next big career move for you. We are building systems which can scale across multiple marketplaces and automated large scale eCommerce business. We are looking for a SDE1 to design and build our tech stack as a coherent architecture and deliver capabilities across marketplaces. We operate in a high performance co-located agile ecosystem where SDEs, Product Managers and Principals frequently connect with end customers of our products. Our SDEs stay connected with customers through seller/FC/Delivery Station visits and customer anecdotes. This allows our engineers to significantly influence product roadmap, contribute to PRFAQs and create disproportionate impact through the tech they deliver. We offer Technology leaders a once in a lifetime opportunity to transform billions of lives across the planet through their tech innovations.
In this role, you will have front row seats to how we are disrupting eCommerce fulfilment and supply chain by offering creative solutions to yet – unsolved problems. We operate like a start-up within the Amazon ecosystem and have proven track record of delivering inventions that work globally. You will be challenged to look at the world through the eyes of our seller customers and think outside the box to build new tech solutions to make our Sellers successful. You will often find yourself building products and services that are new to Amazon and will have an opportunity to pioneer not just the technology components but the idea itself across other Amazon teams and markets.
See below for a couple of anecdotes, should you want to hear a SDEʼs perspective on what it is like to work in this team:
“I have worked on other global tech platforms at Amazon prior to SellerFlex and what I find extremely different and satisfying here is that in addition to the scale and complexity of work that I do and the customer impact it has, I am part of a team that makes SDEs owners of critical aspects of team functioning – whether it be designing and running engineering excellence programs for design reviews, COE, CR, MCM and Service launch bar raisers or the operational programs for the team. This has allowed me to develop myself not just on the tech or domain as a SDE but also as a wholesome Amazon tech leader for future challenges.”
“It is extremely empowering to be a part of this team where I am challenged to learn and innovate in every project that I work on. I get to work across the tech stack and have end to end ownership of solution and tech choices. I hadnʼt worked on as many services in my previous team at Amazon as I have built from scratch, launched and scaled in this team . The team is in a great place where it is connected to customers closely, is building new stuff from scratch and has to deal with very light Ops burden due to the great architecture and design choices that are being made by SDEs”
Key job responsibilities
- Work closely with senior and principal engineers to architect and deliver high quality technology solutions
- Own development in multiple layers of the stack including distributed workflows hosted in native AWS architecture
- Operational rigor for a rapidly growing tech stack
- Contribute to patents, tech talks and innovation drives
- Assist in the continual hiring and development of technical talent
- Measure success metrics and influence evolution of the tech product
About the team
The SellerFlex team owns and maintains approximately 40 services built from the ground up to power the SellerFlex product. This product allows sellers to bring their inventory online into Amazon and process orders in their own location, through a web-based UI & mobile app for seller associates. The SellerFlex product has gone live in 12 stores with close to 15K warehouses worldwide, supporting variety of programs.
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