Softrware Development Engineer (SDE2) at Amazon India · Hyderabad, Bengaluru (Bangalore), Delhi, Gurugram, Pune, Chennai · 3 - 9 years · ₹2L - ₹15L / yr (ESOP available) · Profitable · Posted 21 Feb 2022

Software Development Engineer – SDE 2.
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++ 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 India
About
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope and capabilities of a large company, and the spirit and heart of a small one.
Together, Amazonians research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world.
Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our actions, goals, projects, programs, and inventions begin and end with the customer top of mind.
You'll also hear us say that at Amazon, it's always "Day 1." What do we mean? That our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon's very first day - to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and focus on delighting our customers.
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Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, test, and maintain backend applications using C# and .NET/.NET Core.
Build and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
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Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following best practices.
Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application issues in development and production environments.
Optimize application performance, scalability, and security.
Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
Basic Qualifications & Skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
1+ years of experience in backend development.
Hands-on experience with C#, .NET/.NET Core, ASP.NET Web APIs, and Entity Framework.
Strong understanding of relational databases such as SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
Knowledge of REST APIs, authentication mechanisms, and API security.
Familiarity with version control systems such as Git.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Good communication and collaboration abilities.
Job Description:
We are looking for a Software Engineer with solid development experience in Java and related frameworks. We are looking for a self-motivated, go-getter, out-of-the-box thinker who is ready to work in a high-energy start-up environment. He/she must demonstrate a high level of ownership, integrity, and creativity.
Required Skills:
• Core Java (Proficient)
• Spring, Spring MVC OR Spring boot
• Hibernate – Good to have
• Oracle/MySQL DB - Hands-on (Intermediate)
• REST API and AWS– Good to have
• Hands-on experience of working on Spring boot based Microservices (Intermediate)
• Good to have knowledge of Microservice DevOps tools (Git, Jenkins, JUnits, deployment, monitoring, tracing)
• Sound understanding of core Java, SOAP Services, REST Services, Spring & maven, having expertized to work on Unix platform
• Should have working knowledge on web servers (e.g. Apache HTTP) and application servers (e.g. Tomcat, WebLogic)
• Should have a working knowledge of any relational database. Preferred will be Oracle and MySQL.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• You will design, develop, modify, debug and/or maintain software code according to functional, non-functional and technical design specifications.
• You will follow software engineering standards, applicable software development
methodology and release processes, to ensure code is maintainable, scalable,
supportable and demo the software products to stakeholders
• You will investigate issues by reviewing/debugging code, providing fixes and workarounds, and reviewing changes for operability to maintain existing software solutions.
• You will work within a team, collaborate and add value through participation in peer code reviews, provide comments and suggestions, work with cross-functional teams to achieve goals.
Why should you join Opcito?
We are a dynamic company that believes in designing transformation solutions for our customers with our ability to unify quality, reliability, and cost-effectiveness at any scale. Our core work culture focuses on adding material value to client products by leveraging best practices in DevOps like continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automation, coupled with disruptive technologies like cloud, containers, serverless computing, and microservice-based architectures.
Here are some of the perks of working with Opcito:
• Outstanding career development and learning opportunities
• Competitive compensation depending on experience and skill
• Friendly team and enjoyable work environment
• Flexible working schedule
• Corporate and social events.
Who you are:
- You have an overall software development experience of 4 to 10 years
- 3+ years proficiency in Java and Spring boot
- Familiar with distributed computing and frameworks such as gRPC/ protobuf
- Understands JVM metrics, Garbage collection and performance tuning
- Experience in creating high-level design(HLD) and low-level design(LLD)
- You have a good understanding of relational database, NoSQL technologies, and REST
- Good to have experience in HTML, JavaScript, GraphQL, TypeScript, ReactJS and related toolsets
- Exposure to AWS stack/cloud computing
- Self-motivated developer who takes ownership of work
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computing related discipline
- Experience in Product Development Environment is a plus.
- 3+ years of recent hands-on Java development
- Java, Python, JavaScript programming languages
- Fluency with RESTful APIs, AngularJS, HTML5 and CSS
- Great understanding of designing for performance, scalability, and reliability of data intensive application
- Understanding of database fundamentals and advanced SQL knowledge
- In-depth understanding of object oriented programming concepts and design patterns
- Ability to communicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, verbally and in writing
- Understanding of full software development life cycle, agile development and continuous integration
- Experience in Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban
What puts you over the top:
- Exposure to various technologies like Spring Boot, Microservices, Kubernetes and also some frontend technologies like React.js, Node.js or other UI frameworks.
● Experience in AdTech or Programmatic
MUST HAVE GOOD EXPERIENCE IN SPRING BOOT, NODE JS, ANGULAR JS, REACT JS, JAVASCRIPT,JAVA, HTML/CSS.
- Expert in building Web API's and Web Services applications
- Developing solutions Microsoft Azure cloud-based services using platform service offerings with a focus on SQL Azure as well as other Microsoft .NET technologies (.NET Core, C#, SQL/T-SQL, ASP.NET MVC, XML)
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- Deep understanding of API First, TDD, BDD methodologies
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- Experience with DevOps processes - full end to end release automation and evolving CI/CD tools and processes a plus
- Demonstrate verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate with all levels of the organization, clearly and concisely present issues, alternatives, and recommendation(s)
- Demonstrate ability to explain complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience
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- Experienced working with remote and distributed teams
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- Enthusiasm and experience building large scale Multitenant systems
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- Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
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- Coordinate cross-functionally to insure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
- Support test and deployment of new products and features
- Participate in code reviews
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- B.Tech from Tier 1 College.
- 3+ yrs of experience, at least 2 yrs of experience with Python and Django.
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