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Amazon Software Development Engineer - II in Austin, Texas
Description
Build customer experiences on the Amazon website that your family, friends, and millions of customers will see daily. Work on ambiguous challenges that will drive billions of dollars in impact across the customer's shopping journey.
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We're looking for a SDE-II who wants build new technology and drive execution in the core shopping areas of search. You will drive major improvements to our customers' search experience, showing them more relevant, personalized and inspirational results. You will connect customers with brands they love across multiple touch points. You will build large scalable systems to serve our customers and make discovery of other products a joy.
To succeed in this role, you need to be a self-starter who enjoys bringing clarity, simplicity, and direction to highly ambiguous challenges. You enjoy bworking with Senior and Principal engineers across the organization. You execute with speed and rigor in designing experiments, working with PMs, analyzing results, and iterating towards success as needed to better serve the overall vision and strategy.
Key job responsibilities
You’ll deliver high-quality systems and features for customers by translating the complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design and implementing critical parts of it. You own the software development process end-to-end, including working with stakeholders to determine requirements, designing, architecting, planning, implementing, testing, and operating new systems and features. You will be responsible for services that can be deployed globally, delivering an exceptional customer experience. As in leadership positions, you will be responsible for career development of junior engineers.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA
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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