Software Development Engineer II, Personalization

Software Engineer

Our goal is to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online. We have been delighting our customers with recommendations by constantly improving on the quality and performance of these recommendations. Our mission is to create intuitive tools to help other developers deliver recommendations features more efficiently and to better measure their performance. Are you passionate about working on disruptive ideas? Are you obsessed with finding and building innovative user experiences? Are you enthusiastic about solving big data problems? This is a unique opportunity that combines the ability to build exciting, new user experiences for internal customers, with the opportunity to work with big data, automation, and other advanced technologies.

About you:

• You are a software engineer with an interest in modern user interfaces, data science, telemetry, automation and performance.
• You have great problem solving skills.
• You have strong leadership qualities, great judgment, clear communication skills, and a track record of delivering great products.
• You enjoy working hard, having fun, and making history!

Key job responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable software solutions to process big data.
• Collaborate with diverse stakeholders to envision, design, develop, and launch new and impactful software.
• Utilize technology to solve complex problems.
• Deliver high-quality code on schedule.
• Demonstrate proficiency in diverse data structures and algorithms, making informed decisions on their appropriate usage.
• Independently clarify technical requirements, estimate development timelines, and apply effective design approaches.
• Conduct code reviews, offering constructive guidance to fellow team members.
• Drive continuous improvement in software quality, customer experience, and product maintainability.
• Mentor and lead developers, fostering curiosity and deep technical understanding.

About the team:

Amazon's Personalization organization is a high-performing group that leverages Amazon's expertise in machine learning, big data, and distributed systems to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We run hundreds of experiments each year and our work has revolutionized e-commerce with features such as "Customers Who Bought Also Bought" and "Recommended for You". This team strives to help the organization deliver on these features with high quality and efficiency. We also provide the organization with tools to understand their features' performances. We care deeply about our customers, as well as the well-being and growth of our team members. Amazon's internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow. This is a track record we are proud of and will continue to uphold. We are looking for creative and innovative leaders with a similar penchant for deeply-technical problem solving and the ability to lead, mentor, and deliver while upholding Amazon's leadership principles.