Software Development Engineer, Shopping Design Tech

Description Deliver delightful and innovative shopping experiences for Amazon customers everywhere. You will work directly with design, product, and technical leaders to build, test, deliver, and maintain new user interfaces and interactions that improve the shopping experience. Key job responsibilities As an SDE II on the Shopping Design Tech team, you will: - Deliver features and improvements to major portions of the codebase, working closely with stakeholders and peers to understand customer problems and ensure you build the right solutions - Contribute across the full software lifecycle, demonstrating operational excellence and identifying opportunities to improve processes and systems - Tackle difficult problems with visible risks, bringing clarity and identifying simple solutions while understanding customer impact - Design software to enable new features or improve existing systems, balancing priorities between new development and operational work - Drive continuous improvement, identifying and executing on opportunities to enhance your team's development and testing processes - Earn trust with design, product, and engineering partners, demonstrating empathy, candor, and backbone through all levels of communication A day in the life A day in the life will include: - Designing and implementing innovative shopping features and experiences that delight customers - Collaborating closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to turn concepts into high-quality, scalable code - Proactively identifying technical risks and opportunities, and proposing solutions to address them - Participating in code reviews, pair programming, and other engineering best practices to maintain code quality and share knowledge - Owning the full software development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment and maintenance - Utilizing the team's prototyping and experimentation tools to rapidly validate ideas and gather customer feedback - Continuously learning and expanding your skills to keep pace with evolving technologies and customer needs About the team The mission of the Shopping Design Tech team is to build magical shopping experiences that customers use daily and love. We are part of a group that includes product and design leaders who design the Amazon shopping experience for customers. We build the features that make it easy for customers to discover, evaluate, and transact on Amazon. We enable Amazon builders with design patterns, systems, tools, and best practices to design a cohesive and delightful shopping CX. Your stakeholders include design, product, and engineering leadership, all of whom rely on your expertise and guidance to deliver exceptional shopping experiences for Amazon customers. Basic Qualifications - 2+ 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 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.