Japan Consumer Tech is a global software development group based in Tokyo, Japan. There are four core technical teams:
(1) Fashion Technology team: is focused on building the best in-class experience for customers who shop for clothing, shoes, jewelry and watches on both desktop and mobile devices. We aspire to be the leader in fashion e-commerce and opportunistic on setting the standard. We develop features for browsing, search, detail page, and perform analytics to continuously improve the customer experience.
(2) Mobile Shopping team: focuses on Japan specific initiatives in the mobile space. We work on features across all mobile platforms including mobile web, tablet, and phone applications. Our projects address two areas of customer need: invention and acceleration. We invent and innovate in areas that are specific to the Japanese mobile marketplace and work to accelerate the international expansion of globally beneficial mobile features.
(3) Amazon Points team: is focused on providing a best in class loyalty points program for all product categories on Amazon.co.jp. In addition to working on the Points Platform, our team integrates and works with all of Amazon’s key systems including search, product detail pages, shopping cart, order pipeline, and customer service.
(4) Consumer Experience team: accelerates feature and program parity, innovation, and, where appropriate, local differentiation across all of our existing and emerging international locales. We make sure that each of our websites is a thoughtful combination of Amazon known best practices and unique last mile engineering driven by Japan’s customers’ needs. Our work spans the technology stack from front-end customer experience to back-end service technology and has very high visibility to senior leadership with small teams owning high impact projects.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Software Development Engineer for JP Consumer Experience organization. The ideal candidate needs to have strong technical influence to peers across the globe, junior engineers in the team and senior leadership and thus requires strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners). Creating a reliable, scalable, and high performance service requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, how the Web works, and practical experience building web based applications on large-scale distributed systems are prerequisites to be successful to this job. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals.
Are you up for this challenge? Come join as a tech leader in our group!
· Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
· Experience in Java, C++ and object oriented design.
· Linux (or UNIX) background.
· Understanding of relational databases and SQL.
· 1-2 years experience of successful production software deployments.
· Experience with large-scale multi-tiered systems and service-oriented architecture.
• Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills (C/C++ and/or Java preferably on a UNIX or Linux platform)
• Knowledge of Perl or other scripting languages a plus
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly
• Previous technical internship(s) preferred
• Graduate degree a plus
AMZR Req ID: 440367