Software Development Engineer II

Are you an innovative and accomplished professional seeking a role with significant impact? Amazon seeks a dynamic Software Development Engineer for the Books org to lead AbeBooks automation initiatives.
In this position, you will scope complex projects, deliver elegant solutions by gathering requirements from design to release, optimize time-to-market trade-offs, and communicate goals across cross-functional teams. You will engage with diverse organizational sections, clarify ambiguities, negotiate technical solutions between development and business units, anticipate bottlenecks, and escalate issues for on-time delivery. This role demands seasoned Software Development Engineer expertise and the ability to guide high-level technical design.
If you are excited about solving complex problems across diverse teams at global scale, we invite your application!
Key job responsibilities:

• Build automations reducing manual effort and modernizing systems/workflows.
• Improve existing systems with focus on test coverage, refactoring, and technical debt reduction.
• Evaluate emerging technologies for operational challenges.
• Deliver features agilely within a collaborative team.
• Ensure high standards in quality, security, architecture, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Create scalable, fault-tolerant, cost-effective systems easy to manage/use.
• Design solutions for broadly defined problems starting from concept.
• Identify root causes limiting innovation or delivery speed across owned/non-owned components, displaying strong technical acumen and ownership.