SDE III, Physical Stores Experience Design

SDE III, Physical Stores Experience Design

As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day‑to‑day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real‑world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no‑brainers to buy and easy to use.

Just Walk Out builds technology enables a new kind of stores with no lines and no checkout—you just grab and go! Customers simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take what they want from our selection of fresh, delicious meals and grocery essentials, and go!

Our checkout‑free shopping experience is made possible by our Just Walk Out Technology, which automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in an online cart. When you’re done shopping, you can just leave the store. Shortly after, we’ll charge your Amazon account and send you a receipt. Our Just Walk Out Technology uses a variety of technologies including vision, sensor fusion, and advanced machine learning. Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earth’s most customer‑centric company and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in vision, machine learning, distributed systems and hardware.

Key Job Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Just Walk Out team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of product features from beginning to end. You will work with cross‑functional teams to help solve complex business problems and design innovative solutions that enable seamless checkout‑free shopping experiences. Your responsibilities include designing, implementing, testing, deploying and maintaining innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security. You will write high‑quality distributed system software and work in an agile environment where development cycles are measured in weeks. The role involves collaborating with experienced cross‑disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.

You will help build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault‑tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage. Working in this role, you will contribute to a technology that enables shoppers to simply enter a store, grab what they want, and leave without traditional checkout lines.

Diverse Experiences

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The Retail Platform Technology team in AWS Just Walk out builds the platform and architecture that offers retail capabilities to the customers to run their Just walk out stores. This spans across various domains such as Order Management, in‑store pricing intelligence, shopper receipts and refunds, and the merchant experience capabilities that allow merchants to seamlessly integrate with Amazon to power their stores with Just Walk out technology.

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

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