Software Development Engineer II, Personalization at Amazon
Software Development Engineer II, Personalization Details
March 8, 2019, 6:09 a.m.
Software Development
Seattle, Washington
full stack team In Personalization we
Consider the following problem: every day, millions of customers with unique interests and needs come to Amazon looking for products out of a catalog of over a billion items. On each page, we need to decide what content would be most helpful to customers - ranging from automated recommendations to manual merchandising to navigational or informational content, etc. What do we show to customers to help them make shopping decisions and help them discover more parts of Amazon's vast catalog? In Personalization we use state-of-the-art machine learning techniques and A/B testing to answer this question by running experiments on some of Amazon’s most prominent and valuable pages. We are a full stack team working on a diverse range of products, ranging from one of the largest-scale machine learning systems in the company, to real-time, low-latency recommendation and ranking systems, building algorithms for understanding customer behavior and generating recommendations content, and as well as building
• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent • 3+ years’ experience in front-end software development • Development experience in data structures, algorithms, OOP. Experience in modern programming language (e.g., Java, Scala, Perl). • Excellent verbal and written communication skills• Masters/PhD degree or Bachelor’s degree with equivalent experience • Proven results oriented person with a delivery focus • Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating • Machine Learning experience • Experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and