Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Now

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Now in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
Level classes it as a mid-level role.
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AI in this role

Do you want to invent a brand-new quick-commerce platform from the ground up? Amazon Now is building the future of 10-minute delivery for India's fast-growing grocery and essentials market, and we're looking for talented engineers who want to do more than write code — you'll own components that thousands of customers touch within minutes of a change going live, and help shape the product, the architecture, and the business roadmap. This is not maintenance work; it's a high-visibility, grounds-up initiative where you'll design and build the entire shopping lifecycle — discovery, storefront, ordering, and delivery — using modern ReactJS front-ends and backend services built from scratch.

You'll work alongside senior engineers and product leaders to solve difficult, ambiguous problems at scale, making pragmatic trade-offs without over-engineering. If you thrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment where your work directly influences both the technology and the customer experience on a platform designed to scale beyond India, this is the role for you.

Key job responsibilities
a) Design and deliver complex, scalable components of the quick-commerce platform end-to-end, spanning discovery, storefront, ordering, and delivery experiences
b) Contribute actively to the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, design, code reviews, testing, deployment, and operational support for production systems
c) Make sound architecture and trade-off decisions on technology choices, dependencies, and resource efficiency, balancing speed of iteration with long-term maintainability and quality
d) Collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate business and customer needs into technical solutions that deliver measurable impact
e) Ensure operational excellence by identifying and resolving root causes of issues, raising the engineering bar on reliability and scaling, and sharing knowledge through code reviews

A day in the life
Your day blends inventing and building stable, performant software with your team through pragmatic design discussions and thorough code reviews. You'll make critical architecture decisions — whether to reuse existing components or build new ones, which dependencies to adopt, how to optimize for resource efficiency — while pairing with senior engineers on complex technical challenges. You'll collaborate directly with customers and stakeholders to refine project ideas, then move quickly under a build-fast, iterate-fast model without compromising on quality or operational discipline.

About the team
We're the India Grocery & Everyday Essentials team building Amazon Now — a grounds-up quick-commerce experience for India's fast-growing 10-minute-delivery market. Our team of senior engineers and product leaders is creating industry-leading shopping experiences spanning discovery through delivery. We value high ownership, a proactive approach, and the highest engineering standards, and we move fast and iterate quickly.

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

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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How we rate this

Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Now at Amazon rates 25 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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