Software Development Engineer, Amazon Visual Experience

The Amazon Visual Experience (AVX) team processes images and organizes information for billions of products, ensuring that each product image empowers customers to make informed purchasing decisions. We are looking for an innovative and result-oriented full stack Software Dev Engineer II to build our next generation of systems for our selling partners to upload and manage images for billions of products. A Software Dev Engineer II on the AVX team is a technology leader that demonstrates exemplary practice in design and implementation of new services. You will drive solutions for scalable, efficient, and fault tolerant services. You will act as a thought leader to influence our overall strategy by helping define product features, driving system architecture, and spearheading best practices that enable a quality product. The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving engineering challenges of modern web applications and distributed back-end systems at massive scale on an ongoing basis and have a demonstrable record of accomplishment for delivering successful products. We take pride in developing and applying cutting-edge products that optimize the bestselling partner and customer experiences.

We are looking for an experienced Full Stack Software Dev Engineer who has a passion for large-scale service architecture, performance and applies a principled approach to software system design. You thrive on solving hard problems, either independently or in a group setting, and are not afraid of pushing the status quo.

Amazon Visual Experience offers a dynamic workplace that is fueled by innovation and passionate collaboration. We take pride in developing cutting-edge technology and products that are optimized for the best customer experience.

Key job responsibilities

A Software Dev Engineer on the AVX team creates the experiences for selling partners providing them with tools to upload and manages images for their products and feedback on how to improve their images and listings.

A day in the life

On the AVX team, Software Dev Engineer II work with Product Managers, Usability Engineers, UX designers and back-end developers to provide the end-to-end experiences for selling partners to upload images and provide feedback on the quality and compliance of their images.

About the team

AVX team provide a complete set of accurate, informative, and consistent visual content for every product in Amazon stores by acquiring and selecting the best content from Selling Partners and contributors, and augmenting or generating new content as necessary to create a clean visual shopping experience and increase customer purchase confidence.

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

- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

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

- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

- Experience with front end development

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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