Amazon Rentals is a newly launched program that provides an easy to use service for Students to acquire Textbooks and Musical Instruments at a low price. Students benefit from a lower cost upfront, FREE returns, 2-day Student Prime Shipping, and is backed by the same world class customer service Amazon provides today. Building on this success, we plan to expand as the Rentals Platform for Amazon across multiple product categories and scale to support rapidly growing business goals. Along the way we will also enable new customer features, such as try-before-you-buy an item, that will change the way customers shop at Amazon. We are building a new platform (completely new services), if you are interested in leading massive expansion plans and architecting systems for the future, keep reading.
The Rentals Logistics team is looking for a software engineer to step into a leadership role, define and develop highly scalable and high performance web services. You will have opportunities to work on predominantly backend (Services) and some frontend (Website) components and interact with business stakeholders directly.
· Have you ever wondered how a physical inventory is mapped to a virtual item?
· Have your ever wondered how we are tracking the use-fullness of an inventory and tracking its provenance as rental inventories goes through multiple customer cycles?
· Have you ever wondered how items are graded in a trustable manner so that it can be rented to next customer?
If you are excited about these questions and interested in the answers, this might be the role for you. You will have opportunities to solve deep technical problems, build innovative solutions, and work with top notch software developers. You must be able to look at the big picture from both business and technology perspective, possess strong analytical, design, and problem solving skills, and enjoy working with data, algorithms, and people. You are not afraid of ambiguity, like thinking “outside the box”, and get excited about difficult challenges. You are a strong team player and motivated self-starter who thrives in a startup-like environment where flexibility is essential and delivering rock solid, customer focused solutions is paramount.
Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.

· • Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 1+ years of software engineering experience, including Java and/or C++ or Android.
• 1+ years of experience in networking, multi-threaded applications and complex software development.

· Excellence in technical communications with both technical and non technical peers
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· Robust project planning/execution skills including estimating, scheduling, and executing on committed schedules
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· Excellent judgment, organizational, and problem-solving skills
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· Exceptional interpersonal communication skill, including verbal, written, listening and customer relationships
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· Ability to work in a dynamic environment