About the position
Do you enjoy big data, machine learning, economics, data visualization, and like to work on innovative technologies? Do you want to pioneer new tools and solutions in Amazon's retail business? Are you interested in a leadership position on a dynamic team that is enabling Amazon to delight customers with in-person shopping experiences? We are responsible for building the core intelligence, insights, and algorithms that support work related to Amazon's physical stores. We are tackling complex problems by bringing together numerous data assets from disparate sources, and using best-in-class modeling solutions to extract the most information out of them. Our team is constantly inventing on behalf of customers and the ideal candidate will be customer obsessed. A successful candidate will have a passion for innovation, interest in innovative technology, and excitement about working in a high-impact domain.
Responsibilities
- Be considered a technical leader for the team.
- Proactively fix architecture deficiencies and/or propose larger projects, which may require the work of your team.
- Show good judgment when making technical trade-offs between your team's short-term technology or operational needs and long-term business needs.
- Bring perspective and provide context for current technology choices and guide future technology choices.
- Set standard for code submissions and work ethics.
- Write software that is easy for others to contribute to.
- Contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices on the team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Nice-to-haves
- 5+ 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
Benefits
- Equity
- Sign-on payments
- Medical benefits
- Financial benefits
