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Amazon Software Development Engineer II, Search Events Experience in Seattle, Washington
Description
Have you used the search page to discover gifts for the loved one on Amazon? Are you excited about building solutions that improve the retail search experience for events and impact hundreds of millions of customers? The scale and impact of Amazon retail search is HUGE and we need smart and creative leaders to develop innovative features to realize the future of product search worldwide. Come help us deliver features you would be proud to show off to your friends!
The Search Events Experience team is responsible for worldwide customer facing search features optimized for events on desktop, mobile, and tablet devices. Everything from the moment a customer clicks into the search box to when they view search results. We are looking for SDEs who are excited by the challenge of building solutions that improve the Amazon search experience for millions of customer worldwide.
Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
Work with product managers to understand the problem spaces, the business requirements and share your ideas
Explorer and propose the extensible technical designs that meet the needs of the customers by working with multiple different teams
Deliver the high-qualify systems with high extensibility, scalability, and availability
Proposed the innovate solutions that improve the experiment velocity and efficiency
A day in the life
On day-to-day basis, you will be working in a fast-paced environment with a team of smart software engineers, product managers, and partners. You will work closely with product managers to share your ideas and shape the products you build. You will design and build the right technical solutions to meet the needs of the customers. You will have the chance to learn many systems and your work will improve the systems' extensibility, scalability and availability, and impact hundreds of millions of customers!
About the team
The mission of Search Customer Experience is to help customers shop with delight, ease, and confidence. Within the Amazon search experience, customers should be able to seek inspiration through product discovery and exploration, navigate our vast selection effortlessly, find quality products that meet their needs quickly, and make purchase decisions they won’t regret. We delight customers by accurately understanding their intent and delivering an experience that feels targeted and customized to their shopping mission. We make shopping effortless when the experience helps customers make an informed, high confidence purchasing decisions directly on Amazon with ease.
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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.