Software Development Engineer II, Alexa Shopping, Alexa Shopping Core

Are you passionate about building innovative shopping experiences powered by voice and AI The Alexa Shopping - Core team is looking for a Software Development Engineer to build the customer experiences that enable millions of customers to shop seamlessly through Alexa.

Youll work across retail and core Alexa frameworks and services from product discovery to conversational interfaces to prompt tuning designing and shipping features end-to-end. Were investing heavily in LLM-powered and agentic AI shopping experiences and youll be building at the intersection of Generative AI voice and retail at scale. This is a high-visibility role where your work ships to customers daily.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and build end-to-end features that bring retail shopping experiences to Alexa working across retail tech stacks Alexa services and LLM-powered conversational interfaces
- Develop and iterate on GenAI and agentic AI capabilities including prompt engineering and tuning for customer-facing shopping experiences
- Own your services from design through production writing clean maintainable code and driving engineering best practices through code reviews
- Collaborate with product managers applied scientists and partner teams to define build and ship customer-facing features
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues participate in on-call rotations and continuously improve operational health through automation and monitoring
- Experiment and move fast balancing speed of delivery with long-term system quality

A day in the life
As an SDE on the Alexa Shopping - Core team youll spend most of your time writing code that shapes how customers shop through Alexa. On any given day you might be building a new shopping experience tuning prompts for conversational flows or iterating on a GenAI-powered feature with an applied scientist. Youll collaborate closely with product managers and teammates on design approaches ship frequently and see your work in customers hands quickly. Youll also contribute to operational health through on-call rotations monitoring and automation shared across a small supportive team.

About the team
The Alexa Shopping - Core team builds the customer experiences that let millions of customers shop through Alexa from product discovery to purchase. We work across retail and Alexa frameworks and were actively building the next generation of conversational shopping powered by LLMs and agentic AI. Our engineers own their problem spaces end-to-end and have real autonomy to experiment and ship fast. Were a small team that invests in each others growth through mentorship design reviews and a culture where everyones voice shapes the product.

- 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

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually