Lead the hardest design decisions end-to-end: evaluate trade-offs, simplify complexity, and set patterns the rest of the team builds on
Mentor and coach engineers, raise the technical bar, and drive adoption of engineering best practices across the team
Partner closely with product, operations, and business teams to translate ambiguous, complex business problems into durable technical solutions
Champion operational excellence (CI/CD, monitoring, on-call), lead design reviews, and own a high quality bar for all deliverables
A day in the life
You'll review operational metrics to ensure system health across live stores, unblock engineers on their toughest technical challenges, and dive deep into system designs — weighing trade-offs and cutting complexity. You'll lead design reviews across the team's charters, mentor engineers on architecture patterns, and shape deployment plans for features rolling out across multiple cities, ensuring rollback strategies, monitoring, and alarms are in place before launch. As a senior, you'll help set technical direction and priorities, with Selection as your primary canvas.
About the team
Amazon Now builds the technology behind India's Quick Commerce experience — from the moment a store goes live, to how selection is curated for each neighborhood, to how every order is picked and staged for delivery in minutes. We work at the intersection of technology and physical retail, solving hard problems in real-time inventory, catalog and selection management, store automation, and partner enablement. Our work reaches millions of customers who count on us for everyday essentials, fast.
This role is the senior technical anchor of the team, setting architectural direction across every charter we own — with Selection as the primary focus. It's a rare scope: deep ownership of one of our most important problem spaces, combined with technical influence across the whole team.
We embrace our differences and are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have employee-led affinity groups reaching thousands of employees globally. We are dedicated to supporting new members through mentorship and knowledge sharing, and we strive to assign opportunities that help each team member develop into a well-rounded contributor.
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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