Software Development Engineer, UPMT

Are you excited to help customers discover the hottest and best reviewed products?

The Marketing Tech and Science team helps customers discover and engage with new, popular and relevant products across Amazon worldwide.

We do this by combining technology, science, and innovation to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside cutting edge tools for marketers.

You will be responsible for creating and building a centralized reporting and data analysis platform for the marketing team to optimize Amazon’s cross-category marketing and merchandising.

Through the enablement of intelligent marketing campaigns that leverage machine-learning models, you will help to deliver the best possible shopping experience for Amazon’s customers all over the globe.

As a software engineer on the team, you will have the opportunity to design features for and experiment on hundreds of millions of customers all across the globe.

Our experimentation centers on Machine Learning enhancements to product advertisement and marketing. The team focuses on feature development that helps the marketing department analyze their campaign and activities.

We believe in regular feature develop and frequent experimentation, allowing us to continuously improve the customer experience.

You will have the opportunity to explore the many channels Amazon provides for customer outreach and engagement, both onsite and offsite.

As a new team, we carry little tech debt. We prioritize writing high quality and maintainable code, and build systems that leverage existing tools to provide extensive test coverage across our services.

Amazon’s retail business is well established within the company, the reporting team is unique in its nascency within the organization.

The team provides a great opportunity to make an outsized impact in a burgeoning space on fresh or even yet to be built services.

If you are passionate about large-scale systems and the cutting-edge in customer engagement and marketing, our team is the right place for you.

As a member of our software engineering team you can expect to :

• Learn and grow from a talented group of individuals within our team and within our sister teams
• Immerse yourself in the process of standing up new services from scratch, through powerful industry leading AWS products
• Solve problems which require novel solutions in low-latency systems
• Solve problems that center around scale, across the world, over hundreds of millions of customers
• Write high quality, maintainable code
• Perform peer code-reviews and contribute to technical designs
• Integrate and collaborate with applied science experts specialized in machine learning recommendation models
• Think outside the box when it comes to innovating for the customer. Our team is looking for fresh ideas to engage with customers across both internal and external mediums

This opportunity is suited for highly motivated and talented software engineers and new college hires who want to apply and grow their technical depth and breadth at scale.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.

This position is located in San Diego, California - America’s finest city. There’s no shortage of beautiful beaches and nature to explore in the area, with culinary choices from all over the world.

San Diego’s temperate weather and relaxed culture make for an idyllic work environment. The tech community is well established and growing rapidly, with Amazon’s commitment to the area through organizational expansion and hiring.

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
30+ days ago