Software Development Engineer, Shopping Videos

About the Role

Amazon Shopping Video (ASV) is a new strategic program in Amazon Advertising focused on leveraging video for customer product inspiration. We are seeking a self-driven, enthusiastic full-stack engineer with a strong product sense to help build end-to-end video experiences for millions of customers. This role offers significant influence on the team's technical direction and engineering practices, with opportunities to innovate in niche areas like livestreaming, chat, advertising, and video commerce.

Key Responsibilities

• Build fluid customer experiences that enable customers to view videos and shop concurrently, collaborating with Engineers, UX + Product team, Applied Scientists, and Marketing.
• Lead engineers on complex projects that impact millions of Amazon Customers daily.
• Take ownership of projects end-to-end, making decisions that may involve a "Product/UX hat."
• Optimize video recommendations, build low-latency rendering systems, and develop responsive, modern customer experiences.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Expertise in modern architecture patterns, state management, and component-based design.
• Experience with design system implementation and component libraries.
• Experience with performance optimization for high-frequency UI updates and complex state changes.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards and internationalization best practices.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• Experience in areas such as:
• Livestreaming
• Chat
• Advertising
• Video Commerce

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.