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Job summary
Are you interested in cracking the untapped market of consumables in India and maintains a high bar for customer experience? Our vision is to create a market of local “stores” with Fresh Store in India for full-service grocery selection, Amazon-bestsellers, and local sellers across grocery, wine and spirits. Our 3 year vision is to be the largest online ultrafast grocery store in India. Amit Agarwal, SVP India recently made the statement in all the leading dailies “If you ask me the next five years of vision - from your avocados to your potatoes, and your meat to your ice cream - we'll deliver everything to you in two hours. Probably in the next five years groceries and consumables would be more than half of our business"
Our engineers are top-notch software developers who love listening to the customers, working as a team, and proactively taking the lead whenever necessary. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating and delivering software solutions for the consumable program. In this role, you will have an opportunity to own design and development of key parts of services. You will have influence on subsystem design and help contribute to a team culture around practices that are critical to a quality product.
Our team is working on solving customer first problems using latest technologies in web, analytics and personalisation space. In this role, you will participate in all parts of the software development process, from collaborating with customers and other stakeholders like product manager, operation, fulfillment, category manager, and finance teams on design to executing that design in a scalable and extensible way. You will collaborate with worldwide external teams, senior software development engineer and principal engineers while working on hard business and design problems. Successful candidates are passionate about translating high-level, ambiguous business goals to software platforms that enable multiple businesses. You are passionate about taking initiative, delivering extensible, on-time solutions, and being a part of high-performing teams.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, implementation, and deployment of key functional areas in the website, social/community features, mobile platform and mobile applications.
- Assist directly and indirectly in the continual hiring and development of technical talent
- You will work extensively with cross-functional teams across team on the design and development of core platform functionality
- You will work with business teams and project managers to convert functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.
- You will work with engineers both onsite and offsite to define technical tasks and build detailed implementation plans.
- Continue to innovate and build solutions to support business growth and launch new features.
- Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
- Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations.
- Effectively research and benchmark Amazon technology against other competing systems in the industry.
- Contribute intellectual property through patents
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 1+ years of experience in software development
- Programming experience with at least one software programming language.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
- 1+ years of Software Development experience.
- Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills (C/C++ and/or Java/C# on a UNIX or Linux/Windows platform).
- Solid software development background including data structures, test driven development.
- Solid experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems and algorithms.
- Proficiency using modern web development technologies and techniques, including JavaScript, AJAX, HTML5, CSS, Responsive Design, web services, etc.
- Strong analytical skills, with excellent problem-solving abilities.
- Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency and drive.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.