Chicago, IL, US
6 days ago
Software Development Engineer, Location, Strategy & Analytics
Join our dynamic team of Software & Data Engineers driving data-driven decisions for Amazon Physical Stores' growth and development strategy. As a Software Development Engineer, you'll collaborate with engineers, scientists, and product teams to build scalable infrastructure and innovative solutions.

If you're passionate about big data, geospatial analytics, open source technologies, AWS, or GenAI. and want to play an impactful role in shaping Amazon's physical store strategy, come join us!

What We Offer:
- Strong work-life balance
- Continuous learning opportunities
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and innovations

What We Build:
- Central Datalake solutions for comprehensive data management
- Scalable backend & frontend infrastructure to support efficient management, optimization and strategy of Amazon Physical Store portfolio
- AI-powered chatbots and data extractors

Technology Stack:
We leverage a modern tech stack, including but not limited to:
- Frontend: ReactJS, MapLibre, Deck.gl
- Backend: Apache Iceberg, Apache Sedona, Apache Spark
- Cloud & AI: AWS Bedrock, AWS AppSync, AWS AppFlow

A successful candidate will have a passion for innovation, interest in cutting-edge technology, and excitement about working in a high-impact domain, proven ability to deal with ambiguity to deliver highest quality solutions, and will:
- Design and implement complex, large-scale systems, including data lakes and chatbots
- Evaluate and guide current and future technology choices
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team development
- Work with a high degree of independence to deliver high quality solutions

Key job responsibilities
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that adheres to industry best practices
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers
- Actively engage and participate in software architecture and design reviews
- Oversee and continually improve production operations, including optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, code deployments, bug fixes and overall release management and coordination.
- Work closely with Product teams, Scientists and engineers to explore new solutions and improve existing ones.
- Design and develop full stack solutions from front end to back end

A day in the life
- Collaborating with peer engineers, scientists, economists and location analysts, product/program managers
- Collaborating with to product managers on future vision of our products build data products
- Invest time in learning new technologies.
- Play a key role in the technology that will power Amazon's physical store growth.

About the team
Our vision is to be the world’s leading science, engineering, and analytics provider, coupled with expert knowledge, supporting Amazon Physical Stores. We strive to build a best-in-class network of experiences across all banners, formats and channels within the WW Grocery Stores portfolio.
Our mission is to deliver products, services and data capabilities leveraging cutting edge science and technology to increase long-term free cash flow for WW Grocery stores. We optimize decisions that require spatial analysis, including site selection, portfolio optimization, long-term topology planning, and macro space planning within stores. We tackle problems holistically, and combine data, applications, and business judgment in our solutions.
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