Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Pharmacy

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Software Development Engineer building next-generation pharmacy fulfillment technology, inventory systems, and cloud-native workflows.

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Join Amazon Pharmacy's ambitious mission to build a next-generation Pharmacy fulfillment technology that is reshaping healthcare delivery. As a founding member of our new Bangalore team, you'll architect and develop mission-critical fulfillment technology that ensures medication safety for millions while enabling rapid delivery capabilities to scale the business. You'll work on complex distributed systems handling inventory management, order orchestration, and compliance-critical workflows, building from the ground up using Amazon's latest cloud-native technologies and AI/ML capabilities.
The ideal candidate brings strong systems design experience, expertise in building highly available services, and passion for solving challenging technical problems where quality and compliance are paramount. You'll have the opportunity to integrate with latest robotics and automation systems, while leveraging AI to optimize delivery speeds, enhance accuracy, and improve operational efficiency.
Amazon Pharmacy is transforming how customers access healthcare by combining Amazon's customer obsession and operational excellence with pharmacy services - making it easier for customers to find, purchase, and receive their medications. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the technical foundation of this rapidly growing business while directly impacting customer healthcare experiences. Your work will be instrumental in scaling Amazon's pharmacy operations and building technology that could fundamentally change how customers access their medications. If you're excited about building large-scale systems that require precision while maintaining Amazon-scale performance, we want to talk to you !

Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement software solutions that enable new features and improvements across major portions of your team's systems, balancing short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
- Own the full software development lifecycle for your projects, including product definition, scoping, coding, testing, deployment, and ongoing operational support.
- Actively participate in code reviews, providing meaningful and constructive feedback to teammates, and coach others on producing high-quality, well-documented code.
- Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and cross-functional peers to understand business and customer value, ensuring you deliver the right solutions to the right problems.
- Identify and resolve root causes of operational issues, driving permanent fixes and continuously improving your team's processes and system reliability.

About the team
Amazon’s mission is to make it dramatically easier for customers to access the healthcare products and services they need to get and stay healthy.. Towards this mission, Amazon Pharmacy Fulfillment Tech strives to build technology to fulfill the world’s healthcare needs as fast as possible at the highest quality, lowest cost, and greatest convenience. While our near-term focus is building fulfillment technology to support Amazon Pharmacy, our North Star Vision is to support the fulfillment of any type of healthcare experience at Amazon. To that end, our systems are flexible enough to integrate with other in-house and third-party systems and extensible to accommodate the ever-growing and changing healthcare needs of our customers. Whether it is building our own software or integrating with other in-house and/or third-party services, we strive to leverage the best-in-class technology available to deliver delightful healthcare experiences to Amazon customers, starting with Pharmacy.

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 1+ 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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Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Pharmacy 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.

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