Software Development Engineer - Vendor Systems

Amazon.com hires people from all types of backgrounds, into positions based all over the world. We recruit the best and brightest. Why Join Amazon.com? At Amazon, we believe that every day is still Day One. A day to take a first step. A day to look forward to new challenges. And today is that day for you. It's your day to be a part of something great. Your day to make your ideas come to life. And your day to join a company that redefines itself every day. That's the energy and excitement behind Amazon. Software Development Engineer - Vendor Systems The Vendor Systems team has a rare startup opportunity on a team focused on building applications that will allow Amazon.com vendors to take greater advantage of our platform. Our mission is to create the systems and tools required for vendors to help themselves. Help themselves do everything. They need to be able to register and manage their accounts, set up products not already in the catalog, identify themselves as suppliers of a product, provide cost and availability updates, manage purchase orders, view sales, inventory and compliance reports, send advance shipment notifications and much more. The VSS team is creating vendor facing applications that enable vendors to do all of this. The goal is to dramatically increase the selection and drive operational efficiencies and build a collaborative environment for vendors to operate in. An example of a pioneering self-service program at Amazon.com is Advantage (www.amazon.com/advantage), a program whereby anyone with a product and a UPC code can sell via the Amazon.com website, using Amazon.com fulfillment. VSS team owns the underlying platform technology including solving technical issues like authentication, authorization, content management, session management, user registration. VSS team is also one of many teams who is building applications on this platform and solving real business problems. We need a SDE who loves hands on work building applications. This is a great opportunity in which you can take ownership of the entire end to end development, integration and deployment effort for Amazon.com's vendor facing applications. We are looking for someone who: has a BS/MS in computer science has solid CS fundamentals likes startup mode (you like to do a lot of stuff yourself) has a powerful command of Java or C++ (Mason, Perl and/or Javascript a plus) with excellent coding skills has great understanding of databases, distributed systems and service oriented architecture.