Software Development Engineer-II, Amazon
Amazon.com is looking for a talented and enthusiastic Software Development Engineer to join the Digital Acceleration team. The Digital Acceleration team owns services supporting the publishing, pricing and purchase of Digital content, including Kindle Books, Amazon AppStore, Amazon Music, Amazon Video, etc.
This candidate will be joining a team working on scalable web services using cloud technologies and offers opportunity to work on Gen‑AI LLM technology. The work will be highly visible to Amazon customers and internal stakeholders.
As a Software Development Engineer, this person will lead the architecture and development of high‑scale web services and workflows. A successful candidate will have an established background in designing and developing back‑end web services, strong technical skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast‑paced environment, high creativity, and great analytical reasoning skills.
Key Responsibilities
* Design and build software solutions that power promotional capabilities across Amazon’s Digital Acceleration (DA) businesses — including Kindle, Prime Video, and Music.
* Own and evolve critical platforms that deliver promotional management, competitive pricing intelligence, and operational automation to pricing managers, business teams, and product managers across DA.
* Take meaningful ownership of key products — particularly the Promos UI platform — driving features from initial design through deployment and ongoing maintenance.
* Work across the full stack: craft user interfaces with modern web technologies, build robust backend services in Java on AWS, and integrate with Retail promotion systems such as PLM (Promotion Lifecycle Management).
* Make architectural decisions that balance near‑term business needs with long‑term scalability and maintainability.
* Lead technical designs independently, engage actively in design reviews, and provide substantive code‑review feedback that raises the bar for the team.
* Collaborate closely with operations teams, business stakeholders, Retail promotion platform teams, and partner engineering organizations.
* Develop a deep understanding of customer workflows and pain points, translating them into well‑designed, reliable solutions.
* Champion operational excellence through proactive monitoring, incident response, and identifying opportunities for automation and process improvement.
* Mentor junior engineers, contribute to development best practices, and drive technical improvements that increase the team’s overall velocity and reliability.
About the Team
Our Vision: Be the one‑stop shop for digital business’ global cataloging needs to accelerate adoption, expansion, innovation to enhance Amazon customer’s shopping experience through enriched selection, discovery, monetization and customization for making quick purchase decision.
Basic Qualifications
* 2+ 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.
* Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Preferred Qualifications
* 2+ 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.
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