Sofware Development Engineer, Core Shopping

We are looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to design build and operate large-scale systems that power Amazon Lists. Youll work on high-traffic services and customer-facing experiences solving complex problems in distributed systems frontend modernization and data-driven personalization all while directly impacting the shopping experience for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities

1. Design & Build: Architect and implement scalable backend services and customer-facing features across the Lists platform
   
2. Frontend Development: Develop responsive performant UI experiences using modern frameworks (React) to delight customers
   
3. System Ownership: Own services end-to-end from design through deployment monitoring and operational excellence
   
4. Technical Excellence: Write clean maintainable well-tested code; participate in design and code reviews; raise the quality bar for the team
   
5. Operational Health: Participate in on-call rotations drive root-cause analysis and build automated monitoring and alerting
   
6. Collaboration: Partner with product managers designers and peer engineers to define technical solutions that meet customer needs
   
7. Mentorship: Guide junior engineers through code reviews design discussions and best practices

About the team
Amazon Lists helps hundreds of millions of customers organize and share the things they love from wish lists and gift registries to idea boards and collections. Were entering a new chapter applying state of the art AI to re-imagine how customers curate discover and connect through lists.

- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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