Software Development Engineer I, IN Fashion Tech – Job ID: 1911308 | ADCI – Karnataka – IN, KA, Bangalore

Amazon

  • Full Time

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Job summary
Would you like to experience what it would have felt like to join Amazon in 1995? Amazon.in, Amazon’s marketplace in India, is building a team to take it to the next level by building capabilities that are relevant for customers in India . Our Development team plays a pivotal role in this program, with the mission to build a comprehensive solution for the India business. This is a rare opportunity to be part of a team that will be responsible for building a successful, sustainable and strategic business for Amazon, from the ground up!
Beauty and Fashion team’s mission is to improve customer experiences for these category items and personalize the recommendations. We build mobile first features. Every page on the shopping funnel has the opportunity for recommendations that are driven with algorithms aided by regional and logistics driven algorithms and strategies. It is a great opportunity to innovate with billions of records of data for the customers. We use data mining and usability data to develop new features and test them through hundreds of A/B experiments a year. This immense amount of data challenges to create highly scalable and low latency solutions across a wide variety of categories, apparel, shoes, watches, luggage, jewellery.

On a day-to-day basis, you’ll be part of a small, close-knit team of engineers that are agile, data driven, and highly collaborative. You’ll help analyse customer behavior, propose ideas and solutions during sprint planning with your team, implement big ideas, and then measure the results. Engineers on our team have proposed ideas that have impacted millions of customers and generated millions of dollars in revenue.

You will be instrumental in shaping the product direction and will be actively involved in defining key product features that impact the business. You will work with Senior Engineers at Amazon to evolve the design and architecture of the products owned by this team. You will be responsible to set up and hold a high software quality bar working along with a highly technical team of Software Engineers. You should love challenges and working on large-scale, customer facing projects.

Responsibilities:

Implement, test and deployment of applications that impact the business with an emphasis on regionalised algorithms, speed in recommendations, enabling basket building and e-Commerce website development.
Functionally decompose problems into simple, straight-forward solutions and implement them
Work extensively with cross-functional teams across Amazon’s website, ecommerce and fulfillment platform on the design and development of core platform functionality.
Work with the product managers and project managers to convert functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.
He/she should be able to operate in a very fast paced environment where time to hit market is super critical. They would need to also balance technical leadership with savvy business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science and 1+ years of Software Development experience·
Possess an extremely sound understanding of basic areas of Computer Science such as Algorithms, Data Structures, Object Oriented Design, Databases.
Excellent coding skills in an object oriented language such as Java and Scala.
Great problem solving skills and propensity to learn and develop tech talent.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of shipping software on time.
Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches.

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