Working With Rails

The AmazonFresh team is looking for a talented software engineer who is excited to build a full e-commerce solution for our brand new online grocery store. We want an engineer who is interested in building out a full software platform from the customer facing website and platform, to the warehouse management software, to tools to improve buying, to accounting, and more. On this project you will be involved in all aspects of building a business from the ground up.

We've written the preliminary systems to get us to the point of supporting external customers, but we still have a lot of exciting work ahead of us. Some of this work includes developing a route planning solution to efficiently deliver products to customer's doorsteps, working with our warehouse managers to better automate the fulfillment workflow, scaling our systems to serve a growing customer base, and adding personalization and community features to our website to make AmazonFresh the only place customers need to stop to meet all of their grocery needs.

Successful candidates should be passionate about providing an exceptional customer experience and writing high quality, well tested, maintainable code. Our customers include people who place orders on our website, fulfillment center employees, pick-up station employees, and our buyers. The team uses agile methodologies such as weekly sprints, scrum, test driven development, and pair programming when appropriate. Our systems and tools are evolving rapidly over time to respond to our evolving business needs, so we build our software incrementally and redesign and re-architect systems when needed. We strive to maintain a reasonable work-life balance on our team by setting the expectation that most work will be completed during meeting free core hours.

Our systems are built primarily in Java and Ruby and based on open source frameworks. This is a great opportunity to learn more about open source third party tools and gain experience working with exciting technologies such as Ruby on Rails and MySQL.

Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
- Proven results-oriented person with a delivery focus
- Strong software development skills
- Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating
- Commitment to being open to agile software development methods
- Ability to learn a lot quickly

To apply: Please e-mail your resume to 031021-resumes@amazon.com and include "workingwithrails.com" in the subject line.