Amazon is looking for a Sr. Software Development Engineer who is passionate, innovative and have a heart for Nourishing People and the Planet. You will be working on designing and developing long term, scalable and high-impact programs within the Worldwide Grocery Stores Tech (WWGST) organization.

Our team leads the development and delivery of food production services that empower team members to create fresh, prepared foods for customers. We support both in-store kitchens and innovative centralized kitchen facilities across Amazon's Worldwide Grocery Stores retail brands, including Whole Foods Market, and Amazon Same-Day. By building scalable production capabilities, we enable consistent quality and operational excellence across diverse store formats.

Our mission is to transform food manufacturing by developing and implementing innovative, automated production processes. We leverage state-of-the-art tools and facilities to revolutionize how food is produced at scale, delivering safer, higher-quality products to customers while driving operational excellence across our manufacturing operations.

We're seeking dynamic, entrepreneurial individuals who excel in problem-solving and thrive in high-pressure environments. This role offers a unique opportunity to join a team with numerous greenfield projects, allowing you to shape the future of retail technology from the ground up.

You will design, develop, and deploy reliable distributed solutions at Amazon scale, working with core technologies including Java, Linux, and AWS services. Collaboration with teams across Amazon and Whole Foods Market will be essential as you help redefine the industry. The ideal candidate excels in ambiguous environments, builds high-risk components first, and maintains focus on architectural goals while delivering incremental launches. You should create scalable, robust, and elegant solutions, valuing simplicity in solving complex problems.

Your analytical approach should be data-driven, with a deep understanding of customer needs and a passion for innovating on their behalf. You will participate in setting development team quality standards while maintaining a big-picture perspective. As a team player, you recognize that amazing results come from smart, creative, and empathetic teammates. You actively foster an inclusive team culture, provide constructive feedback, and help grow team members while holding them accountable for smart decisions and results.

If you're passionate about pushing boundaries and driving innovation in the retail space, this is your chance to make a significant impact in an evolving industry.
This role offers continuous learning opportunities, the chance to make a positive impact, and an engaging work atmosphere where you'll tackle novel challenges daily.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

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