Amazon.com Inc. is recruiting a new software and tech development team to its second headquarters to flesh out the technical backbone for its global delivery operations.
The new team, dubbed Project Nazaré, will build systems to manage the financial processes for Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Global Engineering Service, which oversees its global network of fulfillment-related facilities, according to a job posting for the team's senior product manager, set to be based in the company's HQ2 campus in Arlington.
“Imagine being a part of a team where every single team member is a critical voice in the decision-making process, has a meaningful impact on product features, and has the ability to redefine the customer experience,” the job posting reads. “Welcome to Project Nazaré, where we are building multiple products from scratch and where you can be amongst the first employees in a well-funded, highly technical, and highly visible business critical tech platform team.”
Amazon plans to hire 125 members in product management, software development and engineering, technical program management, change management, and user experience design. As of Wednesday, the company had posted 31 job openings for the team in Arlington since Oct. 5.
Project Nazaré's team members would work to grow the following Amazon company sectors: consumer fulfillment (or picking up and shipping customer orders), Amazon transportation services (distributing packages to customers), Amazon Air (cargo airline that delivers packages), global specialty fulfillment (customer delivery), and PillPack (an Amazon Pharmacy service for medication distribution).
Project Nazaré's “multiyear initiative,” expected to build and grow 21 new platforms and modules in the next two years, will be based both in Arlington's HQ2, as well as in Hyderabad and Bangalore, India, according to the company’s project description in another job posting for a software development role in India.
However, Amazon’s latest project shouldn’t be confused with a similarly named product announced in October by Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), formerly known as Facebook: augmented reality glasses for consumers called Project Nazare, without the accent over the “e.” Nazaré is also a coastal fishing town in Portugal known for the huge Atlantic Ocean waves that crash upon its shore, drawing adventurous surfers.
“Project [Nazaré] is a software development team in Arlington,” Amazon spokeswoman Rena Lunak confirmed to the Washington Business Journal in an email. “It is not related at all to Meta’s AR project of the same name.”
