Software Development Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Personalization Consumer Engagement team's mission is to surface recommendations that are tailored to customers' personal shopping behaviors on mobile devices, tablets, and desktop. We build mobile first features. Every page on the shopping funnel has the opportunity for personalized recommendations which means different strategies for different situations or behaviors. It is a great opportunity to innovate with billions of records of data for the customers. We use data mining and usability data to develop new features and test them through hundreds of A/B experiments a year. This immense amount of data allows us to leverage machine learning to build smarter and more personalized experiences for our customers across a wide variety of categories, apparel, electronics, consumables, media and more.

On a day-to-day basis, you'll be part of a small, close-knit team of engineers that are agile, data driven, and highly collaborative. You'll help analyze customer behavior, propose ideas and solutions during sprint planning with your team, implement big ideas, and then measure the results. Engineers on our team have proposed ideas that have impacted millions of customers and generated millions of dollars in revenue.

The ideal candidate will be instrumental in shaping the product direction and will be actively involved in defining key product features that impact the business. You will work with Principal Engineers at Amazon to evolve the design and architecture of the products owned by this team. You will be responsible to set up and hold a high software quality bar besides providing technical direction to a highly technical team of Software Engineers. You should be a well-rounded software engineer, with expertise in building large-scale web applications and/or low-latency services, optimized for performance. You should love challenges and working on large-scale, customer facing projects.

RESPONSIBILITES:

* Design, implementation, and deployment of mobile applications that impact the business with an emphasis on personalized recommendations to customers across the shopping funnel.
* · Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
* · Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions
* · Work extensively with cross-functional teams across Amazon's website, ecommerce and fulfillment platform on the design and development of core platform functionality.
* · Work with the business team and project managers to convert functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.
* · Work with engineers both onsite and offsite to define technical tasks and build detailed implementation plans.
* · Participate in and provide design inputs towards the Platform initiative for streamlining international expansions.
* · The ideal candidate will be a leader, builder and operator.
* · He/she should be able to operate in a very fast paced environment where time to hit market is super critical. They would need to also balance technical leadership with savvy business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.