Full-Stack Engineer, Interests AI (CoreCX)

DESCRIPTION

Interests AI is Amazon’s AI-powered personalized discovery experience. We help customers stay inspired and informed about the topics they care about. We’re building a destination where discovery feels natural and ongoing, combining shoppable products with helpful content and recommendations. Our work sits at the intersection of personalization and generative AI, delivered through high-performance web and mobile experiences used at Amazon scale.

If you are thrilled about creating customer experiences that will be used by millions of people worldwide and are eager to tackle technical challenges that have never been addressed before, then this is the perfect opportunity for you.

As a software developer in this role, you will have the opportunity to design and deliver the development of engaging features for millions of customers. You will be an integral part of a passionate and creative team that encourages experimentation and innovation on behalf of our customers. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon. Along the way, you’ll learn a lot, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.

We are looking for a talented Software Development Engineer with a strong technical background, customer obsession and bias for action with a track record of leading and delivering robust solutions quickly. Strong judgment and communication skills, long-term technical vision, and continuous focus on engineering and operational excellence are essential for success in this role. You will be expected to take ownership, be proficient technically, mentor and grow junior developers, encourage software development best practices, and iterate quickly.

Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and operate features for the Interests experience across web and mobile surfaces
- Deliver end-to-end solutions with focus on maintainability, performance, and reliability
- Collaborate with Product and Science to define experiences, run experiments, and iterate based on data
- Understand latest trends in mobile technology and work across Amazon mobile teams
- Build AI-powered experiences including personalized updates, relevance explanations, and contextual recommendations
- Implement analytics events and experiment configurations to measure engagement and retention
- Relish the idea of solving problems and be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Master's degree or equivalent
- Experience building Android or iOS applications
- Experience building server-side rendered web experiences (SSR) and performance-oriented UI rendering patterns
- Experience with experimentation (A/B testing), analytics instrumentation, and metrics-driven iteration
- Familiarity with AI/ML integration and generative AI applications
- Experience with end-to-end SDLC ownership, including operations and on-call, monitoring/metrics, and incident response/RCA

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