Software Development Engineer, Alexa Shopping - Core

Alexa Shopping team located in Bangalore is looking for a Software Development Engineer II to deliver strategic goals for Shopping List, Grocery, and Product Evaluation experiences. This is an opportunity to join our mission to build AI-powered shopping experiences that help millions of customers save time and money every day.

You will work with Generative AI technologies to build features that anticipate what customers need before they ask, help them evaluate products with confidence, and make grocery shopping effortless across Echo devices, Alexa App, and Alexa.com. If you feel excited by the challenge of building and launching customer-facing products that impact hundreds of millions of customers worldwide, this may be the next big career move for you.

We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented Software Engineers who have experience building innovative, mission-critical, high-volume applications. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design and architecture of products used every day, by people you know.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, develop, and own technologies powering Shopping List, Grocery, and Product Evaluation experiences
• Have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define new product features, driving system architecture, and spearheading best practices that enable quality products
• Build and integrate GenAI-powered features that enhance customer shopping experiences
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams including Design, Science, and Product to bring innovative experiences to life
• Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Establish design principles, select design patterns, and mentor junior team members
• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high-quality software
• Participate in code reviews and drive engineering excellence within the team
• Contribute to technical documentation and architectural decisions

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

Preferred Qualifications

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

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