Our goal is to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online. With our years of experience creating delight by fulfilling products from electronics to everyday essentials, our next challenge is offering customers fresh and delicious groceries—from seasonal fruits to your favorite cheeses. Our mission is to create the most intuitive and seamless grocery and everyday essentials shopping experience by combining state-of-the-art ML techniques with seamless user experiences that can deliver timely and relevant recommendations that make grocery shopping easy.
Are you passionate about working on disruptive ideas? Are you obsessed with finding and building the most innovative and customer-friendly user experiences? Have you built and launched new experiences that impact shoppers all around the world? This is a unique opportunity that combines the ability to build exciting, new user experiences for Amazon's customers, with the opportunity to work with Big Data, Machine Learning, and other advanced techniques to provide the best personalized experience for hundreds of millions of Amazon's customers.
About you:
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Grocery Shopping Experience team, you will be at the forefront of transforming how customers shop for groceries and everyday items on Amazon. Working in a dynamic and cross-functional team environment alongside scientists, other engineers, and product managers, you will collaborate to invent groundbreaking solutions that enhance our customers' shopping experiences. We are seeking senior engineers who are passionate about staying abreast of the latest technology and using it to innovate. You should possess strong leadership qualities, excellent judgment, clear communication skills, and a track record of delivering exceptional products. You should relish the challenge of working hard, having fun, and making history!
About our organization:
Amazon’s Personalization organization is a small, high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, and distributed systems to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We work full stack, from foundational backend systems to future-forward user interfaces. Our team’s culture is centered on rapid prototyping, rigorous experimentation, and data-driven decision-making. We run hundreds of experiments each year and our work has revolutionized e-commerce with features such as “Customers Who Bought Also Bought” and “Recommended for You”. We care deeply about our customers, as well as the well-being and growth of our team members. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow. This is a track record we are proud of and will continue to uphold. We are looking for creative and innovative leaders with a similar penchant for deeply-technical problem solving and the ability to lead, mentor, and deliver while upholding Amazon’s leadership principles.
Key job responsibilities
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $134,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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.
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