Software Development Engineer, Home & Lifestyle Innovation Team

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Description

THE HOME INNOVATIONS TEAM

HIT is a new group of seasoned engineers, product managers, designers and scientists determined to redefine how our customers purchase products for their home. We believe that the objects that we choose to surround ourselves with have a huge impact on our quality of life. Not only do they need to be useful, but they need to be beautiful, reflect our style, bring joy and make us proud. In addition, some of these products are also the largest purchases our customers make after their home and car, therefore we must provide them with the right information/experiences to help them make the right decisions and bring comfort in purchasing the products online.

THE CHALLENGES WE WILL TACKLE

As with every project within Amazon, we work backwards from our customer's needs and the challenges they have. Our team will tackle some of the toughest problems in retail:

1. Streamline the purchase experience for large items such as furniture and remove all stress in the process. It will be as easy as purchasing a book.
2. Inspire our customers with beautiful experiences and relevant products.
3. Personalize customer experience to help them find useful products that match their preferences and styles.
4. Provide expert advice and information that help guide our customers in their decision making process.
5. Allow customers to create their personal styles and use that to influence the website's shopping experience.
6. Improve the customer's search experience on the website by providing intelligent filters using user profile and life events.

THE TECHNOLOGY

In order to achieve our vision, we think big and tackle technology problems that are cutting edge. Where technology does not exist, we will build it. Where it exists, we will need to modify it to make it work at Amazon scale. As the problem is so wide and the team new, we need members who are passionate and willing to learn:

1. Image processing, Generative AI, and augmented reality. Imagery and deep experiences are an important factor in our success.
2. Amazon scale systems. All our technology needs to work at Amazon scale, serving hundreds of millions of customers with millisecond level latencies.
3. Big data & analytics. Amazon is data driven and a strong data backbone is necessary in our systems.
4. Personalization and machine learning. All technologies will be used in experiences adapted to what customers need, want, or prefer.
5. User interface & web development. We will create beautiful and dynamic frontend experiences that require deep knowledge of relevant technologies such as AngularJS, JQuery, Horizonte, AUI, etc.

OUR CULTURE AND YOU

We are a tightly knit group that share our experiences and help each other succeed. We love hard problems and like to move fast in a growing and changing environment. We use data to guide our decisions and we always push the technology and process boundaries of what is feasible on behalf of our customers. The most successful members of our team are obsessed with helping our customers in creative ways and bring clarity to ambiguity through data-driven experimentation. If that sounds like an environment you like, join us.

Key job responsibilities

1. Writing solid code, making smart design decisions and building scalable software services.
2. Work across Amazon to creatively leverage existing services and APIs for our product.
3. Work with category leaders and product managers to build features used by millions of people every day, and be proud of it.
4. Solve complex problems that have a large and direct impact on customers and high visibility.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on 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.