Sr Software Engineer, Amazon Now

About the job

Amazon is building India's Quick Commerce offering — Amazon Now — delivering everyday essentials to customers in minutes. We build world-class technology that powers store launches at scale, curates hyper-local selection, and drives seamless operations across our network. We are looking for a seasoned Software Development Engineer to serve as the senior technical leader for the team, owning the architecture and engineering direction across all of our charters — with a primary focus on the Selection experience: how we curate, manage, and scale the right assortment for every customer, in every city. This is a high-impact role where your technical decisions directly fuel Amazon Now's expansion across India. You will set the technical bar for the team, drive the hardest design problems end-to-end, and multiply the impact of every engineer around you.

Key job responsibilities - Own the technical strategy and architecture for Selection — curating city-specific assortments, managing per-store catalogs, and simplifying the experience of listing and onboarding new items at scale - Provide senior technical oversight across all of the team's charters — store launches, catalog and selection, inventory, picking, staging, and store operations — ensuring architectural coherence across them - Architect systems that onboard new stores rapidly across cities, and that scale reliably to hundreds of stores while maintaining low operational latencies - Lead the hardest design decisions end-to-end: evaluate trade-offs, simplify complexity, and set patterns the rest of the team builds on - Mentor and coach engineers, raise the technical bar, and drive adoption of engineering best practices across the team - Partner closely with product, operations, and business teams to translate ambiguous, complex business problems into durable technical solutions - Champion operational excellence (CI/CD, monitoring, on-call), lead design reviews, and own a high quality bar for all deliverables

A day in the life You'll review operational metrics to ensure system health across live stores, unblock engineers on their toughest technical challenges, and dive deep into system designs — weighing trade-offs and cutting complexity. You'll lead design reviews across the team's charters, mentor engineers on architecture patterns, and shape deployment plans for features rolling out across multiple cities, ensuring rollback strategies, monitoring, and alarms are in place before launch. As a senior, you'll help set technical direction and priorities, with Selection as your primary canvas.

About the team Amazon Now builds the technology behind India's Quick Commerce experience — from the moment a store goes live, to how selection is curated for each neighborhood, to how every order is picked and staged for delivery in minutes. We work at the intersection of technology and physical retail, solving hard problems in real-time inventory, catalog and selection management, store automation, and partner enablement. Our work reaches millions of customers who count on us for everyday essentials, fast.

This role is the senior technical anchor of the team, setting architectural direction across every charter we own — with Selection as the primary focus. It's a rare scope: deep ownership of one of our most important problem spaces, combined with technical influence across the whole team.

We embrace our differences and are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have employee-led affinity groups reaching thousands of employees globally. We are dedicated to supporting new members through mentorship and knowledge sharing, and we strive to assign opportunities that help each team member develop into a well-rounded contributor.

Basic qualifications - 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 - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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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