Job Description
Deliver delightful and innovative shopping experiences for Amazon customers everywhere. You will work directly with design, product, and technical leaders to build, test, deliver, and maintain new user interfaces and interactions that improve the shopping experience.
Key job responsibilities
As the Software Development Engineer for the Shopping Design Tech team, you will:
- Lead software development projects that require the work of multiple engineers, providing system-wide design guidance and a strategic technology vision for the team.
- Set a culture of robust software development, with exemplary coding practices and a focus on simplifying existing systems.
- Own the team’s architecture and actively influence technology choices, balancing short-term needs with long-term extensibility and maintainability.
- Foster inclusive, constructive dialogue to build consensus and resolve differing points of view when challenges arise.
- Coach and mentor other engineers, both on your team and across the organization, to drive the adoption of engineering excellence.
- Work on problems where the customer needs are defined, but the technology strategy is not, driving productive discussions to understand the problem before proposing solutions.
- Make sound technical trade-offs that balance the team’s short-term and long-term needs, considering the customer impact.
- Tackle complex problems with multiple risks and roadblocks, developing simple, concise solutions through direct work and by guiding your team.
- Communicate technical designs and decisions, both to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
A day in the life
A day in the life will include:
- Designing and implementing innovative shopping features and experiences that delight customers
- Collaborating closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to turn concepts into high-quality, scalable code
- Proactively identifying technical risks and opportunities, and proposing solutions to address them
- Participating in code reviews, pair programming, and other engineering best practices to maintain code quality and share knowledge
- Owning the full software development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment and maintenance
- Utilizing the team's prototyping and experimentation tools to rapidly validate ideas and gather customer feedback
- Continuously learning and expanding your skills to keep pace with evolving technologies and customer needs
About the team
The mission of the Shopping Design Tech team is to build magical shopping experiences that customers use daily and love. We are part of a group that includes product and design leaders who design the Amazon shopping experience for customers. We build the features that make it easy for customers to discover, evaluate, and transact on Amazon. We enable Amazon builders with design patterns, systems, tools, and best practices to design a cohesive and delightful shopping CX.
Your stakeholders include design, product, and engineering leadership, all of whom rely on your expertise and guidance to deliver exceptional shopping experiences for Amazon customers.- 2+ 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
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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.
Key job responsibilities
As the Software Development Engineer for the Shopping Design Tech team, you will:
- Lead software development projects that require the work of multiple engineers, providing system-wide design guidance and a strategic technology vision for the team.
- Set a culture of robust software development, with exemplary coding practices and a focus on simplifying existing systems.
- Own the team’s architecture and actively influence technology choices, balancing short-term needs with long-term extensibility and maintainability.
- Foster inclusive, constructive dialogue to build consensus and resolve differing points of view when challenges arise.
- Coach and mentor other engineers, both on your team and across the organization, to drive the adoption of engineering excellence.
- Work on problems where the customer needs are defined, but the technology strategy is not, driving productive discussions to understand the problem before proposing solutions.
- Make sound technical trade-offs that balance the team’s short-term and long-term needs, considering the customer impact.
- Tackle complex problems with multiple risks and roadblocks, developing simple, concise solutions through direct work and by guiding your team.
- Communicate technical designs and decisions, both to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
A day in the life
A day in the life will include:
- Designing and implementing innovative shopping features and experiences that delight customers
- Collaborating closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to turn concepts into high-quality, scalable code
- Proactively identifying technical risks and opportunities, and proposing solutions to address them
- Participating in code reviews, pair programming, and other engineering best practices to maintain code quality and share knowledge
- Owning the full software development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment and maintenance
- Utilizing the team's prototyping and experimentation tools to rapidly validate ideas and gather customer feedback
- Continuously learning and expanding your skills to keep pace with evolving technologies and customer needs
About the team
The mission of the Shopping Design Tech team is to build magical shopping experiences that customers use daily and love. We are part of a group that includes product and design leaders who design the Amazon shopping experience for customers. We build the features that make it easy for customers to discover, evaluate, and transact on Amazon. We enable Amazon builders with design patterns, systems, tools, and best practices to design a cohesive and delightful shopping CX.
Your stakeholders include design, product, and engineering leadership, all of whom rely on your expertise and guidance to deliver exceptional shopping experiences for Amazon customers.- 2+ 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
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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.
