Software Development Engineer, Selling Partner Experience
DESCRIPTION
While our problems may be complex, our solutions should be simple. Are you a Software Development professional yearning to find a place to take your career to the next level? Is problem solving and troubleshooting to design and create unique software solutions part of your DNA? Then it’s time to take a look at the Selling Partner Experience Science (SPeXSci) team!
Our goal is simple – SPeXSci seeks to make online selling more attractive to a broader demographic of potential retailers through the application of machine learning and other advanced algorithms. Your work will directly impact cost, selection and the customer experience for both internal and external customers alike.
Key job responsibilities
As an experienced Software Engineer, you will help drive the global expansion of our applications and services, with a significant opportunity to define a Seller and Buyer facing Amazon platform. You will develop a scalable framework for the improvement of the Seller Experience as you work collaboratively across Amazon development teams to integrate their services with our applications and platform. Because you take pride in setting the standard for engineering excellence, you are a hands-on, pragmatic problem solver that easily balances trade-offs between competing interests. You thrive in a fast-moving team environment where you are able to juggle complex dependencies and requirements while producing optimal solutions.
“Third-party sellers contribute just above 30% of unit sales, and are a very significant part of Amazon's business.” – Jeff Bezos
It’s all about the Seller.
- Developing code and systems that have direct impact on 2 million third-party Sellers worldwide and then seeing the results within seconds of deployment in “real time”
- Working with an empowered team of people in an environment that exudes customer obsession with every keystroke, every interaction
- Inventing new innovative approaches towards communicating and interacting with Sellers
- Building a global, enabling toolset that can allow us to deploy in a new country in a matter of days
- Networking with virtually every Tech team within Seller Services as well as many outside of the team to solve collaborative problems
- Experimenting with leading edge programming paradigms, languages and technologies
We are looking for dynamic and innovative Software Development Engineers to join our expanding team to help develop applications that will improve the Amazon Seller Experience and scale for the explosive growth of Sellers on Amazon. This unique opportunity puts you in the driver’s seat to create applications that will improve the efficiency of over 2 million third-party Sellers that help to directly impact the bottom line for both the Seller and Amazon.
"We do hundreds of experiments every day in our fulfillment centers to get a little bit better - incremental invention. And then sometimes we do whole new broadcloth things like Amazon Web Services, like Kindle, like third-party sales on our own detail pages." - Jeff Bezos
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.