Senior Software Development Engineer, WW Reference Pricing
The WW Reference Pricing team owns the computation, validation and display logic of strike-through prices and low price messages for Amazon online and physical stores worldwide. Online our reference prices can be seen across several Amazon retail website pages such as Product Detail Page and Search results. In physical stores our strike-through prices are presented on electronic shelf displays and point-of-sales in stores such as Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods Market and Amazon Go. Our mission is to help buyers always find the best prices at Amazon. We are responsible for offering value to buyers by consistently reinforcing low pricing across categories for Amazon retail, fulfilled by Amazon and third-party products. Our team owns systems that serve data to customer facing applications, handling millions of transactions per second and refreshing reference prices for millions of products daily.
We are working on building the next generation tools and software to help our customers make informed purchases. This requires a wide range of skills or aptitude to learn new technologies like:
- build large-scale high-quality systems that can react/record thousands of events per second and render the information on customer facing UI with low latency.
- knack of solving technology problems in simplistic manner with an eye for innovation.
There is abundance of problems/opportunities in this space and Pricing is one of the top key strategy areas on Amazon retail. We are looking for smart, agile, and strong problem solvers who have burning passion for writing great software and solving big data problems.
We value talented software development engineers who are eager to shine by designing and developing world-class solutions. The engineering candidate wants to have ownership of a domain to deliver meaning results to our customers. We work hard to not only deliver results but invest in each team member’s career and skill sets goals. Additionally, we encourage the use of new technologies such as machine learning when the technology provides a clear advantage.
Successful candidates for this position will have a strong background in designing and developing world-class micro services in software programming languages such as Java, Scala, Ruby, C++, C#, Python and NodeJS. Equally important to these specific candidate skills are excellent written and verbal communication skills both with the team and external teams, the ability to multi-task, the ability to translate business requirements to engineering requirements, the ability adapt quickly to new environments and using creativity to solve difficult problems in a world-class engineering team.
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 5+ 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
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