Amazon Software Development Enginner

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Job Details

Posted date: Aug 06, 2024

Location: Seattle, WA

Estimated salary: $176,450
Range: $129,300 - $223,600


Description

Are you obsessed with building the next generation shopping experience for Amazon customers? Do you want to design and deliver products that have direct and immediate impact on the billions of customers around the world? If any of this motivates you then look no further!

Lifestyle Based Shopping team strives to deeply understand customer preferences, attributes, interests, style, and shopping choices to help them purchase products that fit their lifestyle and shopping mission. Our goal is to improve Amazon's credibility in niche categories like Fitness, team sports, outdoor activities, sports fan merchandise. We achieve this by building features through the customer's journey enabling improved discovery, better product presentation and evaluation, building selection authenticity, and driving re-engagement and repeat visits for these stores.

In this role you will design and build the user experiences on the surfaces our customers interact with (i.e. mobile web, mobile app, desktop). You will work with Product and UX design to understand and create solutions for diverse user requirements (e.g., accessibility, internationalization), user hardware constraints, and security risks. You instrument software with real user metrics (e.g., taps/clicks, feature interaction, performance, fatals) to provide data and protect the customer experience. You will find bold and innovative ways to drive down latency.

As a member of the team, you can have a huge impact on everything from the functionality we deliver for our customers, to the architecture and operational excellence of our systems, to the algorithms we employ, to the culture we build. Engineers on the team enjoy a low operations load, focus on delivery, and are highly encouraged to explore personal ideas that will deliver significant customer impact or technical benefits to the team or more.



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



Extended 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

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.



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