DESCRIPTION

The team is Indian Consumer Business aka Amazon.in. The work scales in both Customer and Seller platform teams. From seller to customer, the team’s mission is to be the most customer-centric organization. Geographically, the teams are located in the US, Canada, and India. The team is focused on building the next-generation technologies that help drive Amazon’s growth in the emerging markets with India as the key case study. The team values all the positive traits of a successful startup — creativity, a fast pace, high energy, a place where everybody and their work is important, and the work is done together in a fun environment. Combine these traits with the history of success and the resources of Amazon.in. The result is a winning combination for the team and all customers. The technology team is engaged in multiple projects to build the right experience that helps transform the way emerging markets buy and sell and is targeted towards solving for the enormous number of challenges and constraints that are posed by low bandwidth networks, low user sophistication, and familiarity with e-Commerce, lack of accurate geocoding of consumer and business locations, high friction payments processes, the emergence of cell phones as the only medium of communication, big data complexity… the list goes on and on.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
Equivalent experience to a Bachelor’s degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education
0 – 2 years professional experience in software development
Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, , , or Perl

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.