Senior Software Dev Engineer, Buyer Safety Experience

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Have you ever seen these warning labels on popular and seemingly innocent products such as fidget spinners or food containers As the Buyer Safety Experience team for we aim to raise the bar when it comes to educating and empowering consumers about product safety. Our team is responsible for the complete end-to-end safety experience for buyers from the warnings you see on the product detail pages (and how to turn them into useful actionable information) to making safer product recommendations targeted to each individual consumers needs to informing consumers of recalled products and preventing them from being delivered to their doorstep.

As a member of this growing team youll be able to build the groundwork and influence its direction for the years to come. Our work cuts across various disciplines from delivering an awesome user experience via great UI/UX to building massively scalable backend systems to support the most high-traffic pages on to analytical and feedback systems which give us data-driven customer insights to using machine learning to influence recommendations and marketing. If you have a passion for consumer-facing applications and are obsessed with customer experience we want you!

Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:

- Help define the system architecture own and implement specific components and help shape the overall experience
- Collaborate closely with product managers UX designers and other SDE team members to help define the scope of the product
- Take responsibility for technical problem solving creatively meeting product objectives and developing best practices
- Demonstrate cross-functional resource interaction to accomplish your goals
- Write high-quality efficient testable code in Java and other object-oriented languages
- Design Amazon-scale tools to facilitate internal business
- Build highly available secure and low-latency systems
- Mentor other developers
- Find out what it takes to engineer systems for Amazon Scale
- Design and build microservices
- Own and operate the systems that you build based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements
- Contribute to planning design implementation testing operations and process improvement

About the team
The Buyer Safety Experience (BSX) team focuses on ensuring a safe compliant informed and sustainable shopping experience for all customers worldwide. Our mission is to surface critical safety information clearly and proactively whether its product warnings recall notifications or guidance on hazardous materials. We aim to build scalable solutions that address global safety standards while catering to local regulations and marketplace needs. Our goal is to empower customers with the information they need to make safe and confident purchasing decisions at every stage regardless of their location or the product category. We prioritize customer safety at every step creating an experience that leads the industry in protecting and informing our buyers.

- 8 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 8 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 8 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 8 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually