Central Retail Pricing is core team that generates prices for worldwide Amazon inventory, you'll play a key role in the evolution of our machine learning based Pricing algorithms to solve the world's most complex technical challenges in pricing optimization, large-scale computing, distributed systems, web applications, algorithms and data mining - to name a few. The Pricing systems are responsible for determining and publishing prices automatically, for the millions of items that Amazon sells worldwide ranging from Books to Consumer Electronics to Shoes. Each country presents a unique set of complexities in generating the price. We are re-architecting our core services to scale up with Amazon’s growth plans. We are looking for a sharp software development engineer who will help design and develop the next generation systems, services and tools for Pricing. The engineer will play a pivotal role in the expansion of pricing software, with the mission to build and execute streamlined, automated
· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field · Equivalent experience to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education · 4+ years professional experience in software development · Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design · Computer Science fundamentals in data structures · Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis · Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, C#, Java, or Perl· Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent · Familiarity with statistical