Software Development Engineer, Amazon Regulatory and Trade Services (ARTS)

ARTS Tech is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer interested in disrupting the way products are bought, sold, and distributed on a global scale. The right candidate will have hands-on involvement in building new tools, services, and distribution structures across Amazon’s growing footprint. The products and capabilities enabled by this role will deliver unprecedented selection and prices across Amazon’s 100MM+ customers, while innovating beyond established supply chain norms. The right candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with interactions across a wide variety of e-commerce topics, and will demonstrate competence in multiple fields and skill sets.

At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth and enable products that meet our customers needs and demands while providing a safe experience throughout. To reach there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, dynamic, and dedicated individuals. Are you excited to help Amazon grow product selection across the globe?

Are you interested in making cross border movement of products seamless for our customers and Amazon? Are you excited to develop solutions for regulatory agencies globally? Are you ready to take on the challenges and excitement of working on greenfield projects? If so, ARTS team is working to enable some of the complex and challenging cross-border solutions to customers globally. This role will report ARTS Tech (Global Trade Services - GTS) technology team. This team owns tech solutions that span all of Amazon's businesses worldwide. In this role, you will gain the opportunity to interact and work with emerging businesses at Amazon from inception through growth phases. You will also gain strategic insights into evolving and mature compliance businesses. This team and role will provide a great opportunity to build your career at Amazon in the Software Development stream.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers truly enjoy mentoring more junior engineers and engineers from non-traditional backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

As a Software Development Engineer on the team, you will take ownership over the software design, documentation, development, engineering approach, delivery, and support of systems built natively in AWS. In this role you will collaborate with leaders, work backward from customers, identify problems, propose innovative solutions, relentlessly raise standards, and have a huge impact by disrupting the way products are bought, sold, and distributed on Amazon on a global scale. The right candidate will have hands-on involvement in building new tools, services, and distribution structures across Amazon’s growing footprint. The products and capabilities enabled by this role will deliver unprecedented selection for our global customers while complying with Global Trade and Product Compliance requirements. The right candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with interactions across a wide variety of e-commerce topics, and will demonstrate competence in multiple fields and skill sets.



Key job responsibilities
1. Define, design, and implement multi-tier distributed software applications.
2. Understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
3. Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, and adherence to development goals and principles.
4. Must be able to independently design code and test major features, as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes.
5. Must be able to effectively collaborate in a fast paced environment with multiple teams in a large organization (software development, QA, Project/Release Management, Build and Release, etc.,).
6. Provide on-call production support for applications.

A day in the life
The ideal candidate will have a track record of navigating successfully through ambiguity, gathering business requirements and creating data solutions that have measurable customer impact, and demonstrating exemplary written and verbal communication skills. The candidate will have to set the right vision, strategy, and roadmap and work alongside stakeholders in the organization to make it happen. The candidate knows and loves working with business intelligence tools, can model mu