Are you passionate about working on disruptive ideas? Have you built and launched new experiences on Amazon top slot of home page and search page? This is a unique opportunity that combines the ability to build exciting, new user experiences for Amazon's customers, with the opportunity to work with Big Data, Machine Learning, and other advanced techniques to provide the best personalized experience for hundreds of millions of Amazon's customers.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying large-scale data mining solutions, distributed machine learning systems, and/or modern client experiences across webpages, mobile applications, and other shopping mediums. You will collaborate closely with teams of software engineers, applied machine learning scientists, product managers, user interface designers, and others in order to influence our overall strategy, and define the team’s roadmap. You will also drive the system architecture, spearhead best practices, and develop junior engineers.
A successful candidate will have an established background in engineering large scale software systems, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
About the team
Japan Marketing Automation team is a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s solution in large scale language model for processing shopping data, and build highly available distributed systems to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We work full stack, from foundational backend systems to future-forward user interfaces. Our team’s culture is centered on rapid prototyping, rigorous experimentation, and data-driven decision-making. We run large number of experiments each year and our work has revolutionized e-commerce features on Amazon home page, category page, deal page and high velocity event pages with up to 10 billion US dollars business contribution. We care deeply about our customers, as well as the well-being and growth of our team members. We focus on visible high-impact work, reduce operational load with automation, and are respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity for people to learn and grow. We are looking for creative and innovative engineers with a similar penchant for deeply-technical problem solving and the ability to lead and deliver while upholding Amazon’s leadership principles.- 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- 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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