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Software Development Engineer, Transportation Cost Allocation and Accounting

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3 months ago
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Software Development Engineer, Transportation Cost Allocation and Accounting

If you are looking for a high impact, high growth opportunity with interesting engineering challenges in a fast-paced environment, this is the role for you. We have a number of untapped high impact engineering and business opportunities with high criticality for Amazon.


What will you own?
You will own building the cost allocation and accounting platform to accurately reflect the actual economics of the Amazon transportation, globally. With the dynamic and the growing nature of the transportation business, we need an integrated solution to cost allocation to better inform operational and profit intelligence decisions. Allocation & Accounting of transportation costs to the items shipped requires building algorithms that are far from trivial and involves deep business understanding, tech acumen, mathematics, and machine learning as well. This data will affect the profitability computation for Amazon, to accurately charge businesses for their expenses, and impacts product selection.


You will build highly scalable systems to compute the cost of transportation for every item shipped by Amazon. These systems are the authority for ship cost computation in Amazon. You will work with economists to find the right model and cost driver to build solutions and algorithms to allocate costs.


Who we are?
We, Transportation Financial Systems (TFS) are responsible for building technologies that support financial aspects for Amazon transportation. Amazon’s transportation systems get millions of packages to customers worldwide faster and cheaper while providing world-class customer experience – from checkout to shipment tracking to delivery. Our software systems include services that handle tens of thousands of requests per second and make decisions to pay billions of dollars a year and ensure that transportation's liabilities and revenues are correctly accounted for. With rapid expansion into new geographies, innovations in supply chain, delivery models and customer experience, increasingly complex transportation networks, ever-expanding selection of products, and growing number of shipments worldwide, we have an opportunity to build software that scales not only with volume but also with the business models. We leverage cutting-edge technologies in big data, machine learning, real-time analytics and high volume, low latency, high availability services.


TFS is a 100+ tech team across eight different platforms. We deal with problems of scale. Billions of dollars of spend is automated through our platforms and pipelines. We are a very fast-growing org and we are aggressively ramping up our team across all engineering roles. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with our global product teams and customers across the world and other tech teams in the organization as we raise the bar in delivering innovation. Our engineering team is completely based out of India, and we build global solutions.


We have a large product and tech roadmap and are significantly ramping our tech team to meet the next level of product requirements for Trans Finance.

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
- 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) 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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visitherefor more information.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.

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