Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Are you passionate about making Amazon the best place for Brands to tell their story, discover and engage new customers, drive traffic to their products and grow their business? Brand Merchandising and Content (BMC) is a team that owns building automated, self-service tools and services that allow Brands of all sizes to increase and optimize conversion via measurement of different content options, drive incremental traffic via marketing and social channels, and accelerate growth via actionable marketing recommendations with one-click actions. We use a variety of optimization approaches (e.g., ML, NLP, MAB, heuristics etc.) to drive the discovery, engagement and conversion needs of Brands.

Using Amazon’s large-scale computing resources, you will build scalable services and workflows with ML based approach to solve complex problems like product lifecycle-based attribution, cold start, content experimentation and optimization. Your work will directly benefit Brands and Customers, you will quantify and measure the impact using real-time data aggregation and performance optimization.

As part of talented team of engineers and scientists, you will have the opportunity to create significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly, our customers as we take on opportunities that can revolutionize the e-commerce industry. We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented Software Engineer who has experience building mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used every day, by people you know.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
· Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs
· Experience developing cloud software services and design for scalability, performance and reliability
· Experience in web UI and AJAX-based interactive application development
· Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
· Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
· Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
· 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
· 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
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· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
· 5+ years professional experience in software development
· Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
· Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
· Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
· Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design and problem solving
· Knowledge of, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Perl