Sr. SDE, Alexa For Shopping

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on this team, you will: - Own the design and architecture of major systems that scale and extend the Amazon Store experience on Echo Show and Fire devices, making the foundational technical decisions the team builds on. - Drive technical direction through ambiguity — decomposing hard, unprecedented problems into tractable designs and aligning multiple engineers around them. - Set and uphold the engineering and operational excellence bar: design reviews, coding standards, testing strategy, and livesite/operational readiness. - Lead the work to keep the store rendering in real time and in sync, sharpen visual grounding, and make conversational, multimodal shopping flows feel effortless. - Drive expansion to new surfaces and international marketplaces, anticipating scaling and reliability challenges before they become blockers. - Act as a technical leader and mentor — growing SDE I/II engineers, elevating code and design quality, and multiplying the team's impact. - Partner deeply with engineering, science, product, and design leaders across Alexa Shopping, including partners in Seattle across time zones, to influence direction beyond your immediate team. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience - 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience - 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience - Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

Amazon is a global technology company operating in e-commerce, cloud computing (AWS), digital streaming, advertising and artificial intelligence. Its India operations span development centres in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Gurugram and Mumbai, covering retail technology, AWS infrastructure, Alexa, advertising, payments and supply-chain systems.