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Software Dev Engineer II, BuyX Detail Page Layouts

Amazon.com Inc

  • Seattle, WA
  • 13 days ago

    Highlights

    As an SDE II you will not only build, but also help shape the technical direction of the team, reviewing designs, raising the quality and operational bar, and mentoring others, while managing ambiguity and the pace of a team that ships fast. BuyX Layouts builds the shopping experiences that help customers evaluate products and make confident purchase decisions across Amazon"s detail and browse surfaces.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    Description

    Do you want to solve business challenges through innovative technology and see the impact of your work reach millions of customers? At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers - customer obsession is part of our company DNA. As a Software Development Engineer II on BuyX Layouts, you will own the design and delivery of significant features and services end to end, make architectural decisions, raise the operational bar, and mentor other engineers. You will work on scalable services in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Own the design, development, and delivery of major features and services, from broadly defined problems through to production and operations.
    • Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
    • Make sound architectural and technical trade-offs, and drive engineering best practices, design reviews, code quality, testing, and operational excellence, across the team.
    • Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage and use.
    • Collaborate with cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
    • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the technical growth of the team.

    A day in the life

    The challenges SDEs solve at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. You will partner with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers (including PE, Sr Engineers) to take features from broadly defined problems to production. As an SDE II you will not only build, but also help shape the technical direction of the team, reviewing designs, raising the quality and operational bar, and mentoring others, while managing ambiguity and the pace of a team that ships fast.

    About the team

    BuyX Layouts builds the shopping experiences that help customers evaluate products and make confident purchase decisions across Amazon"s detail and browse surfaces. We work on high-scale, customer-facing systems and experiment rapidly to move the needle on the customer experience. Our culture is collaborative, ownership-driven, and obsessed with the customer, we value engineers who dive deep, think big, and raise the bar for those around them.

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

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