SDE 2, IES Navigation

Team Purpose

IES Navigation (Nav) Team is a core mobile experience team within Amazon Shopping responsible for designing building and optimizing the navigation surfaces that connect hundreds of millions of customers to their desired destinations across the Amazon mobile app and web. We own critical above-the-fold (ATF) real estate including Top Nav bar Destination Halo Hamburger Menu and Homepage navigation components that drive customer engagement and business value across multiple international marketplaces including India UAE Saudi Arabia Egypt Turkey and more.

Job Description

We are seeking a talented SDE to join our team and help build world-class mobile navigation experiences on iOS and Android platforms along with the backend services that power this role you will work on high-visibility features that directly impact customer engagement and business metrics. You will collaborate with product managers designers and cross-functional teams to deliver innovative navigation solutions that help customers discover Amazons diverse product offerings and services.

As a member of Nav team you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge mobile development build scalable backend services experiment with new UX paradigms like animations and dynamic content and expand Amazons navigation capabilities to new international markets. You will also contribute to our engineering excellence initiatives including system migrations latency optimizations and operational improvements.

What Youll Build

Core Products

* Highway: Top navigation component on Homepage with configurable images and animations for Android/iOS
* Visual Halo: Discovery enhancement specifically designed for various sub-categories ranked by customer preferences
* 2-Col Hamburger: Experimental navigation layout optimisation for mobile experiences
* Do More: Extended engagement features that keep customers exploring on

Technical Focus Areas

* Mobile-First Design: Native Android/iOS development
* Configuration Systems: Dynamic configurable UI components for rapid experimentation
* Visual Discovery: Image-based navigation and product discovery experiences
* Performance Optimization: Ranking based discovery of categories for customer cohorts



Key job responsibilities
- **Build navigation features** for iOS and Android (Top Nav Halo Hamburger Menu Homepage components)
- **Develop backend services** powering navigation surfaces (Highway Nav Config Studio APIs)
- **Enable content configurability** for rapid updates without native app releases
- **Implement targeting & personalization** through Bullseye integration
- **Drive marketplace expansion** across MENA regions (UAE SA EG TR)
- **Optimize latency** and build low-latency architectures for fast navigation rendering
- **Execute system migrations** (JLC3 legacy linktrees DUB to FRA infrastructure)
- **Maintain operational excellence** through monitoring alarming and on-call rotations
- **Collaborate cross-functionally** with ranking discovery and merchandising teams

- 1 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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