Software Development Engineer II

• Alexa Shopping team located in Bangalore is looking for an Software Development Engineer to deliver strategic goals for Shopping suite of products. This is an opportunity to join our mission to build tech solutions that delight Shopping customers. You will be responsible for building new system capabilities grounds up for strategic business initiatives. If you feel excited by the challenge of setting the course for large company wide initiatives and building and launching customer facing products, this may be the next big career move for you.
• We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented Software Engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design and architecture of products used every day, by people you know. Will work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software, establish design principles, select design patterns and mentor junior team members

• Key job responsibilities
• - As a Software Development Engineer II, you will design, manage and own technologies in Alexa Shopping programs space and you will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define new product features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product.
• - Design and implement software solutions that address customer needs, balancing functional and non-functional requirements such as scalability, performance, and security.
• - Contribute across the full software development lifecycle, including product definition, scoping, coding, testing, deployment, and ongoing operational support, ensuring root causes of issues are identified and permanently resolved.
• - Write high-quality, well-documented code and actively participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to teammates and coaching others on best practices for logical, maintainable software.
• - Evaluate new tools and approaches, including generative artificial intelligence, to improve engineering workflows and recommend adoption where appropriate.
• - Collaborate with cross-functional partners and stakeholders to understand business context, prioritize effectively, and deliver incremental improvements that enhance customer experience and system reliability.

• A day in the life
• You will dive into a design discussion for an upcoming feature, prototype a solution, or pair with a teammate on a tricky code review. Involve in writing and shipping code, updating documentation, or onboarding a new team member. You will regularly connect with product and engineering partners to align on priorities and share progress.

• About the team
• Our team is focused on building reliable, scalable software that serves Alexa shopping customers especially in the Quick commerce space. We value collaboration, technical rigor, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Every engineer on the team has a voice in shaping our technical direction, and we invest in each other's growth through mentorship and knowledge sharing. If you are looking for a team where your ideas and contributions have real impact, we would love to hear from you.

Basic qualifications

• - 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• - 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• - Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications

• - 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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