Software Engineer 2
Amazon
Software Engineer 2
Amazon
Sells products online and rents cloud computing
Everyday Essentials (EE) is a $100B+ business and one of the fastest-growing categories at Amazon — the household staples, health and personal care, grocery, and beauty products hundreds of millions of customers reorder. We're reinventing how customers discover, buy, and get more value from them, and we're looking for Software Development Engineers who want to build that future.
The EE Experiences organization builds the shopping experience for the products customers come back for most. Our charter is Progressive Discovery and Monetization: helping customers find better products for their needs, complete their baskets, and improve EE business economics — and giving the world's largest consumer brands new and effective ways to reach those customers and grow with Amazon. We build a durable, profitable business at the intersection of the two, on the surfaces customers use every day.
This is a space where the hardest problems don't have off-the-shelf answers. We're not polishing a solved product — we're inventing experiences that don't exist yet, and the decisions we make now shape a business with room to grow for years. You'll build discovery and recommendation features, brand-facing advertising surfaces, and the backend services that power them. Your work moves from whiteboard to production in front of a very large customer base, with visibility all the way to senior leadership.
We're an AI-first team, and that shows up in two ways. We use AI throughout how we build software, and we expect our engineers to keep learning and applying the latest tools to move faster and raise the quality bar. AI is also at the core of what we build — the intelligence that helps customers find the right product is a modeling and engineering problem we work on hand in hand with scientists. If you're curious about AI, learn quickly, and like using it to solve real customer problems while keeping a clear head about where it helps and where it doesn't, you'll fit right in.
Key job responsibilities
Design, build, and own software end to end — from customer research through design, code, testing, deployment, and production operations.
Take on ambiguous problems where the goal is clear but the path is not, bring clarity, and deliver simple solutions that improve how customers find and buy everyday essentials.
Partner closely with scientists, product managers, and designers to turn customer and brand problems into products that ship worldwide.
Use generative AI tools and modern engineering practices to raise quality and velocity, and coach teammates on getting the most from them.
Own operational health for your services — monitor metrics, drive root-cause fixes, and keep improving the experience for customers and brand partners.
Raise the technical bar through code reviews, mentoring, and hiring for the best talent.
A day in the life
Most days start with the customer problem in front of you: how to help someone find better everyday-essentials products faster, or how to give brands a more effective way to reach shoppers or how to improve the profitability of the business. You dig into data, sketch a design, and talk it through with product managers and scientists before writing any code. By the afternoon you might be prototyping an idea that didn't exist yesterday, reviewing a teammate's change, or debugging something in production. Because so much here is new, you won't just pick up tickets. You'll help decide what to build, push for the approach you believe in, and see your work reach customers in weeks, not quarters.
About the team
Our team owns how customers discover and buy the everyday essentials they rely on — and how the brands behind those products reach them. Our mission is to make restocking the things you need effortless, help customers find better options and to improve the business economics along the way. Day to day you'll work with fellow engineers and partner closely with product managers, designers, and scientists, who bring the customer and data insight that shapes what we build. We're a small, fast-moving group solving open-ended problems for hundreds of millions of shoppers — a place where you own problems end to end and your ideas reach customers fast.
- 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience debugging, profiling, and implementing best software engineering practices in large-scale systems
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Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.
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