Join Amazon's Worldwide Returns and ReCommerce (WWR&R) team, an innovative organization focused on 'making zero happen' for the benefit of customers, the company, and the environment. Our mission is to eliminate defects, reduce return costs, and prevent product waste from reaching landfills. We achieve this through product development and operational excellence, aiming to enhance the customer returns experience, enable product recovery, and maximize the value of returned items.

The WWR&R team brings together diverse expertise in business, product, operations, program management, software engineering, and data analysis. We manage the entire lifecycle of returned and damaged products. Our work spans areas like training machine learning models for automated routing, developing new channels for product reuse, creating world-class customer support for product satisfaction, piloting advanced product evaluations, and ensuring a delightful and straightforward returns process for customers, all while maintaining a sharp focus on business metrics.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, documenting, and supporting highly scalable, distributed, real-time systems. Leveraging your expertise in C++, Java, object-oriented design patterns, distributed databases, and innovative storage solutions, you will build and deploy software systems that address complex and dynamic business needs.

This role involves contributing to key initiatives supporting rapid business evolution and growth, tackling challenging problems, and providing technical leadership. You will champion best practices, mentor fellow engineers, and drive continuous improvements in engineering excellence within the team.

We are seeking experienced Software Engineers with a minimum of 4 years of robust software engineering experience, demonstrating a strong ability to solve complex problems. This position offers the opportunity to work on critical initiatives that fuel our growth and address significant challenges.

Key Qualifications: - 3+ years of professional software development experience (non-internship). - 2+ years of experience in designing or architecting new and existing systems, focusing on reliability and scalability (non-internship). - Proficiency in programming with at least one software programming language.

Preferred Qualifications: - 3+ years of experience across the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations. - A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.