Software Development Engineer II, IN Pharmacy

Our 3 year vision is to be the best-in-class online Healthcare provider in India. Amit Agarwal, SVP India recently said, “In Amazon India’s next five year vision – serving healthcare needs for India is one of the largest opportunity to serve customers in a critical sector as we build on our mission to transform how India buys and sells". India-first innovations in the Healthcare space is a priority investment for Amazon in India.

Are you excited by the challenge of building and scaling new businesses? Do you love to ship software early and often? Do you want to work on greenfield ML/GenAI initiatives? Do you feel passionate about opportunity to serve customers on something as critical as best in class Healthcare to conveniently get access to top doctors, prescription medicines and ability to get lab tests within minutes or at a time of choice. We are a new team building India-first technology to solve for Healthcare needs for India customers.

For this Greenfield initiative, you'll be working alongside a talented and collaborative team made of Sr. SDEs, Sr. FEEs, PEs and will be a great opportunity for learning, growing and building industry leading shopping experience from scratch.

Key job responsibilities

• You solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
• You work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant.
• You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them (and when it is not). Your solutions are pragmatic.
• You consider the legacy of the code you produce and write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand.
• You limit the use of short-term workarounds. You do things with the proper level of complexity the first time (or at least minimize incidental complexity).
• You create flexible software without over-engineering. You make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies.
• You are efficient with resource usage (e.g., system hardware, database, memory/CPU, etc.)
• You work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders, and peers.

About the team

We are fast-paced and focussed team made of passionate and ambitious Amazonians who strive to build industry leading products while closely collaborating and having fun. The team is made of multiple Sr. SDEs and are working on first time in Amazon initiatives which will scale beyond India and pharmacy. The team follows a flexible and collaborative work culture with ample mentoring and guidance from senior leaders. The team values high ownership, bias for action and insist on highest standards and follows build fast and iterate fast methodology. The team is suitable for passionate engineers who are equally interested in contributing to business and product roadmap while building high-performing and scalable systems.