Description

Do you want to reach the next level in your career? Are you looking for new challenges and solving hard problems while using top-notch technologies? Join us and you'll help millions of customers to discover the best from a multi-billion product selection!

Discovery Tech team helps customers discover and engage with new, popular and relevant products across Amazon worldwide. We do this by combining technology, science, innovation and creativity to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside cutting edge tools for marketers.

You will be responsible for creating products that help customers to shop cross-category, easily discover new ideas, new categories and new brands and have fun while shopping. Through leveraging machine-learning models, you will drive opportunities to automate Amazon’s cross-category marketing and merchandising and will help to deliver the best possible shopping experience for Amazon’s customers all over the globe.

We believe in regular feature development and frequent experimentation, allowing us to continuously improve the customer experience. You will have the opportunity to explore the many channels Amazon provides for customer outreach and engagement, both onsite and offsite. The team provides a great opportunity to make an outsized impact in a burgeoning space and on fresh or even yet to be built products and services. There are few opportunities anywhere to start on a new team and make an immediate impact at this scale. We need bright and very talented people to help us fulfill our mission of making Amazon the most loved shopping destination for each customer in the World!

As a Software Development Engineer on our team, you will bring your ability to dive deep into the most complex technical problems to take our products to the next level. You will enhance the functionality of existing systems, increase our ability to scale, and build new systems, contributing to all aspects of the software development lifecycle including design, development, documentation, testing and operations. You will use your strong verbal and written communication skills to deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment. As a part of our team, you will deliver robust features, intuitive designs, back-end services and user interfaces that make it easy for customers to find relevant products in Amazon

Key job responsibilities

As a software development engineer on the team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of product features from beginning to end. You will:

• Work with the team to drive business decisions

• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, compliance, durability, cost, and security.

• Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables

• Write high quality distributed system software

• Work in an agile development environment, where you prioritize the highest value solutions for customers.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

• Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.