Software Development Engineer Core Shopping

Do you want to reinvent the way that Alexa helps customers shop Come join our team!

Alexa is a strategic investment for Amazon and we aim to deliver a voice and touch shopping assistant that is so convenient that customers worldwide will use Alexa every day. Alexa Shopping aims for Alexa to understand the needs of all shoppers regardless of language background abilities or economic means.

We are seeking for a passionate SDE to contribute to the development of Alexas shopping capabilities. Alexa Shopping builds ultralow latency highly available and scalable distributed systems that help customers discover new products they love while saving them time and money. We optimize our systems to predict customers next best shopping action using a combination of machine learning (ML) deep learning and multiobjective constrained optimizations. Come be part of a highly motivated collaborative and funloving team with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate we have a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer you will be responsible for designing business critical systems develop high quality code test deploy and support large scale distributed systems and machine learning models targeted at increasing Alexa Shoppings reach and engagement. A successful candidate will have an established background in a strong technical ability to work in highly ambiguous environments excellent problemsolving skills great communication skills and a motivation to deliver results in a fastpaced environment. You will have deep knowledge of Java Objectoriented Design Service Oriented Architecture and you are passionate about building massively scalable solutions and distributed systems.

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.