Software Development Engineer, Brand Experience, Vine

DESCRIPTION

The Amazon Vine team owns an end-to-end marketplace product that solves the cold-start problem when Brands release new products on Amazon. We help Brands solicit reliable, truthful insights about their products that customers shopping on Amazon can trust when making purchasing decisions.

The Brand Experience organization is the growth and development engine for Brands in the Amazon Store. We reward brands who provide a great experience to our customers, and guide those who do not towards simple solutions to achieve a great customer experience.

Our team builds products that delight and inform customers while fueling brand growth. Our suite of tools enable brands to tell their unique brand and product stories, optimize content through statistical A/B experimentation, provide data and insights to grow their business, solicit and manage customer reviews as well as engage with our mutual customers through a variety of channels.

As an SDE on our start-up team, you will be building cutting edge and highly distributed systems to support brand owners around the world on Amazon. The ideal candidate should have a very strong customer focus coupled with a passion for continuous, data driven improvements.

They should have a strong sense of ownership and a passion for delivering creative solutions for complex problems. A commitment to mentoring, teamwork, agility, and strong communication skills are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance services requires exceptional technical expertise and a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science and large-scale distributed systems. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

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

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 $115,000/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.