Backend Developer

Key Responsibilities:

 Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python services &components
 Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and security
 Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
 Help maintain code quality, organization
 Understanding of established software development life cycles
 Ability to prioritize and multi-task in order to meet deadlines
 Resolves technical issues through debugging, research and investigation
 Collaborate across various teams and with external clients
 Contribute innovative designs and ideas for improving our company products and services

Required Skills Sets

 Atleast 4+ years of experience in Design and Development with Python.
 Experience in Flask / Django
 Familiar with version control (Git)
 Understanding of SQL
 Strong Unit Testing practice
 Understanding of design patterns, Microservices Architecture
 Understanding of Scrum Agile methodology
 Experience in data engineering & Docker is a plus.
Candidate Profile:
 4+ Years of relevant experience with Python and its Principles.
 Graduate in Computer Science or any related discipline (like BS / B.E. / B-Tech in Electronics,
Electrical, IT)

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

 

Additional Job requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
• BS in computer science or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
• Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
• Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization

Role: Software Development Engineer II

Location: Hyderabad / Chennai / Delhi

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.


Top Skills

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++.

• You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.

• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.

Roles & Responsibilities

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.

• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.

• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.

• You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.

• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.

• You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.

• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.

• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.

• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.


Skills & Experience

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.

• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.

• Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.

• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.

About Amazon.com

“Many of the problems we face have no textbook solution, and so we-happily-invent new ones.” – Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com – a place where builders can build. We hire the world's brightest minds and offer them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers. A Fortune 100 company based in Seattle, Washington, Amazon is the global leader in e-commerce. Amazon offers everything from books and electronics to apparel and diamond jewelry. We operate sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom and United States, and maintain dozens of fulfillment centers around the world which encompass more than 26 million square feet.

Technological innovation drives the growth of Amazon, offering our customers more selection, convenient shopping, and low prices. Amazon Web Services provides developers and small to large businesses access to the horizontally scalable state of the art cloud infrastructure like S3, EC2, AMI, CloudFront and SimpleDB, that powers Amazon.com. Developers can build any type of business on Amazon Web Services and scale their application with growing business needs.

We want you to help share and shape our mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of invention that is part of our DNA. We do this every day by inventing elegant and simple solutions to complex technical and business problems. We're making history and the good news is that we've only just begun.

About Amazon India
Amazon teams in India work on complex business challenges to innovate and create efficient solutions that enable various Amazon businesses, including Amazon websites across the world as well as support Payments, Transportation, and Digital products and services like the Kindle family of tablets, e-readers and the store. We are proud to have some of the finest talent and strong leaders with proven experience working to make Amazon the Earth’s most customer-centric company.

We made our foray into the Indian market with the launch of Junglee.com, enabling retailers in India to advertise their products to millions of Indian shoppers and drive targeted traffic to their stores. In June 2013, we launched www.amazon.in for shoppers in India. With www.amazon.in, we endeavor to give customers more of what they want – low prices, vast selection, fast and reliable delivery, and a trusted and convenient online shopping experience. In just over a year of launching our India operations, we have expanded our offering to ovear 18 million products across 36 departments and 100s of categories! Our philosophy of working backwards from the customers is what drives our growth and success.

We will continue to strive to become a trusted and meaningful sales and logistics channel for retailers of all sizes across India and a fast, reliable and convenient online shopping destination for consumers. For us, it is always “Day 1” and we are committed to aggressively invest over the long-term and relentlessly focus on raising the bar for customer experience in India.

Amazon India offers opportunities where you can dive right in, work with smart people on challenging problems and make an impact that contributes to the lives of millions. Join us so you can - Work Hard, Have Fun and Make History.

Responsibilities·         Code, develop, design and architect features related to the existing application. We expect you to own modules end to end and take pride in the work products you ship.
 ·         Lead from the front, when it comes to delivering high quality work products. Serve as a mentor to the team members
 ·         Create and define performance metrics. Ideate, innovate and hack through the existing systems to improve performance.
 ·         Perform code reviews, set coding practices and guidelines within the team.
 ·         Make sense of the product specs, be nimble in getting the issues resolved. Be a thought leader.   ·         Solid understanding and knowledge of Java/C/C++. You should understand the concepts of multithreading, I/O, messaging, instrumentation etc and their implementation in Java/Any other Object-Oriented Language.
 ·         Proficiency in the implementation of algorithms and the use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing. A solid foundation in the principles of computer science is desired.
 ·         Ability to write clean, modular, and loosely coupled code by the use of design patterns.
 ·         He/She should be able to break down and architect complex software systems. For example- Build

2 - 6 yrs of relevant experience in any coding language, PHP would be preferred.
Proficient with full development stack (MySQL, Redis, Memcached, MVC frameworks, jQuery, Server Administration, CSS, HTML, etc) and understanding of OOP design, AJAX, jQuery, and MySQL
Understands how to build an optimized web app and has experience with caching and other scaling techniques
The desire and energy to work long hours so that we can continuously improve our website at the quickest pace possible
Passionate about working in a startup and creating a great product
Must love to program, must be willing to learn, and must be creative. If you are the type of person who finds learning a new technology or language an exhilarating experience, you will love it here.
Must be able to show us projects and or websites that you have created. Bonus points if you’ve created these projects/websites outside of your work (we love seeing proof of how much you love technology and coding).
Education - relevant degree in Engineering preferable

Whom are we looking for? Our groundbreaking technology, requires highly skilled and talented Web Backend Developers to understand the depth of the problem and device a solution for it.We are seeking a Software Engineer, with a depth of experience in developing Web Applications enabled using REST APIs backed by a data warehouse solution, to join our growing company and be a part of our success story. We are looking for individual with great attention to detail, who is genuine, confident, committed and not only passionate about technology, but excited to work in a fun and friendly start-up environment. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and getting things to work while at the same time being able to mentor (and lead) other engineers by way of example to achieve excellence in their work.What does the role involve? As a Web Backend Software Engineer you will be responsible for creating REST APIs which are used to drive the User Interface. Given the nature of the application, these APIs needs to be very efficient and high performing. This requires optimising queries for faster execution and introducing database changes that may be required.You would be working with a complex technology stack which includes (but is not limited to) Spring, Hibernate, HornetQ, Quartz, etc. This requires extensive understanding of transaction management and data handling across different application layers.In addition to the technical ownership, you will also be involved in detailing requirements for requested functionalities and be responsible for providing technical insight into how requirements will be implemented and made available to users. Accurate estimation of tasks and planning are qualities we look for in our engineers.Responsibilities include:Develop, test, implement and maintain application softwareTake part in software and architectural development activitiesTransform requirements into implementation detailsDebug application issues and helping support respond to client queriesParticipate in application development meetingsProvide accurate estimates, clearly communicate status of tasks and identification of risksCommitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problemPerformance tuning of application code at different service levels Incorporate design changes to improve performance of the applicationInteract with customers of the application and help address issues reportedInteract with customers of the application and collect requirements or potential uses cases and draft technical and user requirementsESSENTIAL SKILLS / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalentMinimum 2+ years experience with Java and J2EE/Java EEMinimum 2+ years experience with Spring MVC, Spring Security and HibernateStrong understanding of relational database and normal formsStrong understanding of SQL concepts and ability to write optimised and high performing queriesStrong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe codeExperience building RESTful web servicesExperience with web application servers like JBossStrong written and verbal communication skillsStrong interpersonal skills and time management skillsStrong problem solving and analytical skillsExperience using task tracking systems e.g. Jira and distributed version control systems e.g. GitDESIRABLE SKILLS / EXPERIENCE:Understanding of testNg/JUnitUnix/Windows shell and related command line toolsExperience in Continuous Integration and deployment tools such as JenkinsExperience with database partitioning and column IndexingExperience with query optimisation techniquesWhy work for us?Above market remunerationStimulating challenges that fully utilise your skillsWork on real-world technical problems to which solution cannot simply be found on the internetWorking alongside other passionate, talented engineersHardware of your choiceOur fast-growing company offers the potential for rapid career progression