Amazon Sr Software Development Engineer Pricing Promotions 

Japan 

971042951

As a Software Development Engineer, you will help solve a variety of technical challenges and work with a team of extremely talented engineers. Given that we explore new and exciting areas, you will play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables and build quick prototypes or proofs of concept. You will help invent new features, design systems, develop and deploy highly scalable and reliable distributed services. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of our initiatives, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. You should be comfortable with degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that, frankly, haven’t been solved at scale before. Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of customers.Key job responsibilities
On a daily basis, you will have the opportunity to:
- Design distributed, multi-tiered systems ranging from small-to-large scale.
- Own the full software lifecycle from development, testing, documentation, deployment, monitoring, continuous improvement and scaling.
- Understanding business goals and create functional requirements and project schedules together with business teams
- Develop new and/or build on existing systems effectively, improving and evolving systems for robustness and high performanceA day in the life- Leading technical design discussions for new pricing and promotional features, collaborating with business teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions
- Working with data scientists to implement and improve ML-powered planning engines and optimization solutions- Maintaining and expanding our services' reliability and capabilities as they scale across multiple global marketplaces
- Troubleshooting complex technical issues and implementing improvements to our distributed systems
- Contributing to the evolution of our service architecture to support new business requirements and market expansions

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Ability to design and deliver scalable software and knows SOA
- 6+ years professional experience in software development
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented principles and complexity analysis
- Proficiency in problem-solving and analytic ability
- Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java, C++, Java, C, or C#
- Business level English proficiency

- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience with web-service based systems and enterprise level system development
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.