SDE, Alexa For Shopping

What if you could talk to your Amazon Store With Alexa on Echo Show customers can now do exactly that. The full Amazon store is live on Echo Show 15 and 21 a new way to shop at home that combines voice as a natural way to express needs with the product details reviews and videos customers rely on to make confident decisions.

This product started with an ambitious question and was built from scratch no prior version to iterate on no existing architecture to extend no playbook to follow. The team pioneered novel challenges including rendering the full always-current Amazon store natively on Echo Show in real time building visual grounding from scratch so Alexas responses stay anchored to what the customer sees on screen and creating a conversational commerce paradigm that lets customers skip screens entirely with natural language.

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to help build the next chapter of this experience scaling what weve built expanding to new surfaces and marketplaces and pushing the boundaries of agentic multimodal shopping. As an early-career engineer on this team youll design and build meaningful components alongside experienced engineers own your work through design implementation testing and livesite and grow quickly in a high-ownership environment.

This is greenfield 01 work at the intersection of Generative AI multimodal experiences and conversational commerce. You will have the freedom to experiment learn and invent on behalf of our customers and youll work for a strong leadership team that optimizes for your growth and pairs you with mentors who will guide your career.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer I on this team you will:

- Design build test and operate features that scale and extend the Amazon Store experience on Echo Show and Fire devices.

- Write high-quality well-tested code and participate actively in code reviews both giving and receiving thoughtful feedback.

- Contribute to systems that render the Amazon store in real time keep it in sync and support conversational multimodal shopping flows.

- Help extend the experience to new surfaces and international marketplaces working through ambiguity where there is no existing playbook.

- Own your components end-to-end through livesite operations monitoring on-call participation and continuous improvement of reliability and performance.

- Collaborate with engineering science product and design partners across Alexa Shopping including teammates in Seattle across time zones.

- Contribute ideas to technical designs ask good questions and grow your scope and autonomy over time with support from senior engineers and mentors.

A day in the life
Heres what a typical day might look like. Youll spend meaningful time building designing and implementing features that scale the Amazon Store experience on Echo Show and Fire devices whether thats improving how the store renders in real time sharpening visual grounding or extending the experience to a new marketplace. Youll write code review your teammates and get thoughtful feedback on yours.

Days blend focused coding with a short standup design conversations where your ideas are genuinely wanted and pairing with a senior engineer or mentor when youre working through something ambiguous. Because this is 01 work youll often be making decisions without a playbook and thats the fun part. Youll partner closely with engineering science product and design colleagues across Alexa Shopping many of them in Seattle so some collaboration spans time zones.

Your internal stakeholders are the product design and partner engineering teams shaping the Alexa shopping experience; your end customers are shoppers at home talking to their Echo Show expecting it to just work. The problems youll tackle range from how do we keep the store always in sync and fast on-device to how do we make a conversational shopping flow feel effortless meaty customer-facing problems where what you build lands in peoples living rooms.

About the team
Were the team that taught the Amazon Store to talk back. We took an idea that didnt have a blueprint and shipped it to customers living rooms and now were just getting to the fun part: making it bigger faster and available to shoppers around the world.

Our mission is simple to say and hard to do: make shopping on Alexa feel effortless and delightful no matter where a customer is or which device they reach for. We sit right where voice vision and Generative AI meet retail at Amazon scale which means the problems we solve genuinely havent been solved before and the person who cracks them is often the newest engineer with a fresh idea.

Culture-wise were builders who like ambiguity and dislike bureaucracy. We ship we learn we tell stories over chai and we celebrate the wins (and the instructive failures). We hire smart people and give them room to run youll own real problems from day one with experienced engineers and mentors in your corner not looking over your shoulder. We take the work seriously and ourselves a little less so. If you like the idea of building something customers can literally talk to youll fit right in.

- 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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