Do you love books and reading Do you want to help us engineer and deliver great new experiences for books Our teams mission is to become the preferred destination for organizations and consumers of any size or industry to procure and distribute books of any format for their readership community.
Book Search teams mission is to help customers find books on Amazon. We strive to make Amazon the preferred destination for readers around the world to discover and purchase books. We understand what customers ask for display results that match their expectations and find opportunities to delight them with additional experiences they didnt know they wanted.
We own improvements to understand query intent and relevance of organic search results for Books (Print Kindle Audible) across all surfaces and enhancements to the search page CX on Amazon surfaces World Wide; improving relevance of results via backend and CX launches.
We are looking for an inventive technically skilled and eager to learn Software Development Engineer to join our diverse and multidisciplinary team in an impactful environment.
Key job responsibilities
Work in an agile environment to deliver high quality software
Design and execute innovative solutions to improve the searching experience through a deep knowledge on Search environment and technologies across all the steps of the Search customer journey (Query Understanding Matching Relevance Rendering Format Faceout Optimization and Navigation)
Implement professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including agile development coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
Manage small and mediumsized technical projects with minimal supervision
Experience (noninternship) in professional software development
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including objectoriented design
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
Excellence in technical communication with scientists and engineers.
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