The role
As a full stack Software Development Engineer on NavX, you will design, build, and operate both the backend services and the customer facing experiences that make up navigation across Amazon. You will own features and components end to end, from data model and service to the rendered experience on app, mobile web, and desktop. You will ship code daily through continuous deployment pipelines in an agile environment, and you will optimize our systems for scale, latency, and resilience.
You will work closely with other engineers, product managers, and partner teams, and you will take technical ambiguity and turn it into concrete, well scoped designs. You will raise the engineering bar on the team through code reviews, operational excellence, and mentoring, and you will keep looking around the corner for ways to improve the architecture and the customer experience.
What you will work on
We own navigation across all devices on the Amazon retail experience. That includes browsing destinations in the Hamburger menu, shopping within Store Modes, finding account and personalized content in the You Tab, and discovering strategic programs through the Strategic Subnav and Discovery Bar. We own the navigation chrome on all rendering platforms, along with the platform aspects of its flyouts and tooltips. To support builders across Amazon, we also own Nav Config Studio, which lets partner teams specify navigation links and hierarchies through our experiences.
Our mission is to serve as an indispensable guide that helps customers find what they need, whenever and wherever they need it, and to get out of the way when they do not need our help. Our vision is a tailored navigation experience that brings forward the most important and relevant information for a customer at any stage of their shopping journey.
Key job responsibilities
You have strong technical design, problem solving, and communication skills, and you are comfortable working with technical and non technical stakeholders. You have experience building and operating production cloud services, and you understand how to design for scalability, performance, and reliability. You are a full stack engineer who is as comfortable in a service and data layer as in the client code that renders a customer experience. You want to learn new skills and take on problems that have not been solved before, and you work backwards from the customer.
About the team
We are a diverse, intellectually curious team that likes to have fun and accomplish big things. We care about engineering excellence, operational ownership, and a customer experience we are proud of.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, Santa Clara - 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually
