Software Development Engineer II, Homepage

Amazon’s mission is to be the world’s most customer-centric company and the Homepage is Amazon’s storefront, where we welcome millions of customers daily and help them start their shopping mission by bringing the most relevant parts of the store to them and discover something new. Our team is responsible for designing, developing and shipping one of the world’s best known websites. We start with the customer and work backwards in order to build great customer experiences for mobile phones, desktops and tablets. If you’ve ever visited an Amazon homepage and thought, “this is great” or “this could be better,” we’re the team to talk to.

Our pages and platforms serve our customers and internal teams globally and across devices. This places a number of unique demands on the team. We need to develop extremely high-performing platforms and pages that respect locale specific needs while also achieving scale and reusability. This requires flexible thinking and code. The Amazon homepage is a full stack development opportunity. While we leverage many of the great services at Amazon, we are also actively scoping new and innovative ways to serve original content as well as testing new user interfaces. Our software development engineers define how we architect these changes in order to build a sustainable and performant Amazon homepage experience.

As a software development engineer, you will be expected challenge the status quo, respect the need to be nimble and develop solutions for our most pressing opportunities. You will work with teams from across the company in order to ensure we are using or developing the features necessary to live up to our mission of being the world’s most customer-centric company. You will deep dive into systems and come up with innovative approaches and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities.

You will contribute to creating customer value from massive amounts of data, ensure our features scale to support all relevant business needs, contribute to the integration of our systems with the overall Amazon ecosystem, and collaborate with engineering teams at Amazon who leverage our platforms and pages or work on related problem spaces. Your strong technical knowledge and drive will play a key role in creating the next generation of Amazon homepages. Best of all, your work will impact millions of people across the globe.

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

- 1+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience

- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 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

Preferred qualifications

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually