Do you want to re-invent the way that Alexa helps customers shop? Come join our team!

Alexa is a strategic investment for Amazon, and we aim to deliver a voice and touch shopping assistant that is so convenient that customers worldwide will use Alexa every day. Alexa Shopping aims for Alexa to understand the needs of all shoppers regardless of language, background, abilities or economic means.

We are seeking for a passionate SDE to contribute to the development of Alexa’s shopping capabilities. Alexa Shopping builds ultra-low latency, highly available, and scalable distributed systems that help customers discover new products they love while saving them time, and money. We optimize our systems to predict customer’s next best shopping action using a combination of machine learning (ML), deep learning and multi-objective constrained optimizations. Come be part of a highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we have a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer, you will be responsible for designing business critical systems, develop high quality code, test, deploy and support large scale distributed systems, and machine learning models targeted at increasing Alexa Shopping’s reach and engagement. A successful candidate will have an established background in a strong technical ability to work in highly ambiguous environments, excellent problem-solving skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to deliver results in a fast-paced environment. You will have deep knowledge of Java, Object-oriented Design, Service Oriented Architecture and you are passionate about building massively scalable solutions and distributed systems.