Software Development Engineer, Automotive
DESCRIPTION
We're on a journey to build something new! Come join our team and build new discovery and shopping products that connect customers with their vehicle of choice. We're looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to join our team of product managers, designers, and engineers to design, and build innovative automotive-shopping experiences for our customers.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced engineer to design and implement the technology for a new Amazon business. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to design, implement and deliver end-to-end solutions. You will mentor engineers and support the foundation of a new development team, using your engineering experience to build an culture of innovation, quality and customer obsession.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and build full-stack solutions. Your solutions will enable delivery of innovative automotive experiences and experiences across devices and web.
- Use your problem-solving skills, collaborating with creative and technical teams, thinking-big and inventing and simplifying to solve challenges.
- Deliver novel customer experiences by developing solutions which include innovative UX strategies, AWS services and large scale back-end services.
- Collaborate with teams across Amazon to integrate and optimize existing ad products to take advantage of Amazon's scale and reach.
- Leverage your technical ability, excellent organizational and communication skills to build and solve challenging and ambiguous problems. You'll use your ingenuity and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
- Provide guidance to and mentor SDEs in these team.
- Set a high quality bar, ensuring quality design reviews and robust engineering practices for automated testing, code coverage and full CI/CD pipelines.
A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will create software designs and implementation for medium-to-large scale projects across all areas of this new automotive shopping initiative. You will work directly with creative, product management and program management to define requirements and apply your technical expertise to solve difficult software problems in a fast-paced environment. You'll design and build software and systems for novel customer experiences, AWS services, and large-scale back-end web services, all with the goal of delivering a seamless experience to the customer.
About the team
This role is one of the first on a newly formed team with a vision to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers better convenience and more selection. We’re collaborating with other experienced teams at Amazon to define the future of how customers research and shop for cars online.
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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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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.