What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Development Engineer II, Trend Analytics, Trend Analytics position at Amazon?
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Job summary
Amazon's Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is seeking a Software Development Engineer to push forward a full stack engineering team that will develop a category-creating product sitting at the intersection of business intelligence and investment analysis.
This is a well-funded, greenfield initiative and the chance for you to be a Day 1 member on a team whose north star is to bring Amazon's grasp of customers and business trends to the next level. The startup environment you will enter comes with more autonomy, more opportunities to influence product direction, less operational debt and external dependencies than most teams at Amazon. The product's range spans every business at Amazon, and is attentive to all customer segments including consumers, developers, advertisers, sellers, and creators. The upside for your career include a rare degree of leadership visibility and rapid scope expansion of responsibilities.
The role requires above all 1) the expertise to build scalable, reliable, high-performing and extensible software, 2) a track record of delivering products from scratch, and 3) the ability to deal with ambiguous problems with an entrepreneurial spirit. As a candidate, you have a passion for building cutting-edge solutions that 1) leverage natural language processing and other ML methods over high-cardinality, heterogenous datasets and 2) interface intuitively with business users to capture their feedback and enable faster and better decisions, and 3) build web services by diving deep into system architecture, making technology decisions, and contributing to others' code reviews.
Expect stimulating, passionate, and caring co-workers. We offer competitive pay, stock grants, and great benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401k with matching, and more. This role is based in the Bay Area. Domestic relocation is available for qualified candidates. Join us!
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval (IR), Knowledge Graph (KG), Entity Resolution (ER), Predictive Scoring, Text Summarization, Investment, Finance
About the team
CXBT is an organization made up of a diverse suite of functions dedicated to deeply understanding and improving customer experience, globally. We are a team of builders that develop products, services, ideas, and various ways of leveraging data to influence product and service offerings — for almost every business at Amazon — for every customer (e.g., consumers, developers, sellers/brands, employees, investors, streamers, gamers). Our approach is based on determining the customer need and working backwards from there.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 1 years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
- 2 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Programming experience with at least one software programming language.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
* Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
* Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
* Experience with data mining including machine learning, natural language processing, and statistics
* Experience with computerized knowledge representations including knowledge graphs
* Excellence in technical communication with both technical and non-technical audiences
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
