TRAFFIC Western Cape

Software Development Engineer II, FaST (Fashion Subsidiary Tech)

Amazon

Job Description

Software Development Engineer II, FaST (Fashion Subsidiary Tech)

The FaST (Fashion Subsidiary Tech) Purchase & Post team owns Cart, Checkout, and payment processing for subsidiaries Shopbop and Zappos. As an Amazon subsidiary, we leverage best-in-class technology from within; we analyze and iterate existing and new opportunities, and scale them to continually improve the customer experience from delivery estimates to fulfillment and even returns.

On the Purchase & Post team, you'll build critical services that impact every Shopbop and Zappos customer. You will directly support our internal stakeholders in Fashion & Fitness Subs Finance, take responsibility for scoping projects, completing designs, and building systems for launch. You'll also help bring customers the payment options they prefer and the right cart and checkout experience. Join us to help define the next generation of experiences for the fashion-obsessed.

Work/Life Harmony

Our team values work life harmony. We are located on site in Madison, WI, with core in office hours from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday Friday.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team supports new members through a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures. Senior engineers mentor junior engineers and engineers from non traditional backgrounds through one on one mentoring and thoughtful, kind code reviews. We assign projects that help each team member develop into a better rounded engineer and enable them to tackle more complex tasks in the future.

Key Job Responsibilities

In this position, you'll use a variety of tools to build, provision, and test a variety of APIs and services with a heavy lean toward server side work.

A Day in the Life

You start the day by finishing work from yesterday and pushing a code review for review. You review a teammate's CR, provide feedback, and suggest a small change. At daily stand up, you give an update on your project, report what you're picking up today, and advise a teammate to connect with a stakeholder to unblock. After stand up, a teammate approves your CR, and you kickoff the process to push code to production. You attend a meeting discussing initiatives to reduce technical debt, propose process improvements, and ensure tasks are properly evaluated for the next sprint. Finally, you return to your desk and finish stories you mentioned during stand up.

About the Team

Our team intentionally attracts, develops, and retains diverse talent. We believe that inclusive culture fuels great service, and we look for a teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and can work effectively with a diverse group of peers.

Basic Qualifications
  • 3+ years of non internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of non internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications
  • 3+ years of full soft ware development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Experience creating processes and improving tools that measurably improved productivity, quality, or customer experience
  • Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences
Benefits

The base salary range for this position is 143 400.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and supplemental life plans), employee assistance program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more at

EEO Statement

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, please visit for more information.

About This Role

Career insights for Software Developers positions

Salary Benchmark
$132,270/year
Source: O*NET (USD)
Job Outlook
This career will grow rapidly in the next few years and will have large numbers of openings.
Common Technologies
Apache Kafka Apache Maven Jakarta EE Airtable Apache Hive Blackboard Learn Apache Spark jQuery

Job Overview

Date Posted
30 Apr 2026
Location
Western Cape, South Africa

Software Developers Insights

Job Outlook
This career will grow rapidly in the next few years and will have large numbers of openings.

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