Software Development Engineer

Job Description : Job summary The Retail Pricing team drives the success of Amazon Retail. We build software that makes billions of monthly pricing recommendations on our marketplaces. We earn our customers trust by consistently delivering the lowest prices possible. The Competitive Pricing team is at the core of Amazon's Retail Pricing strategy. We earn our customers trust by consistently delivering the lowest prices possible, irrespective of where they are. In the coming years, the technical systems we are designing will allow Amazon to price for 10-100x more businesses than today. We are using technologies that include machine learning and statistical modeling to build new services that automate the creation, error detection, and correction of prices, allowing Amazon to delight our worldwide customers. This job is for you if you have a passion for designing and building automated systems that make real-time business decisions and self-improve the quality of their results. You like to drive the technical vision and implementation across a team or teams. You enjoy learning from senior engineers, and helping us build a sustainable and inclusive organization. As you learn and expand the domain, you will identify innovation opportunities and deliver new technical and business capabilities. Basic Qualifications : 1+ years of experience in software development Programming experience with at least one software programming language. Bachelors, masters, or equivalent experience in computer science or related field, with 2+ years industry experience. Experience coding professionally in a modern programming language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Perl, and/or Ruby. Good written and oral communication skills, be a fast learner and have the ability to adapt quickly to a fast-paced development environment. Excellent problem solving skills. Preferred Qualifications : Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills (C/C++ and/or Java preferably on a UNIX or Linux platform) Experience coding distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, microservice architectures, and/or large-scale services Experience with database design and development is a plus but not required