Software Development Engineer, Amazon Shopping

About the role

We're enhancing the shopping experience on Amazon through the conversational capabilities of large language models, and we're looking for innovative professionals who are passionate about technology and customer experience. You'll have the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the industry while working alongside talented scientists, engineers, and technical program managers (TPMs) to create solutions that serve our customers.

Responsibilities

We're looking for an experienced Full-Stack Software Development Engineer who can build intuitive user experiences — both front-end and back-end — to architect, design, and develop AI-based UX and applications powered by large language models that ultimately drive Amazon's shopping experiences. In this role, you will build modern web interfaces that enable scientists and engineers to conversationally create, evaluate, and deploy AI agents, as well as the back-end orchestration services behind them.

• Develop service orchestration patterns, efficient agent frameworks, and real-time processing systems, partnering with engineers and scientists in a fast-paced environment to deliver exceptional developer experiences.
• Contribute to our technical roadmap, service reliability metrics, and optimizations focused on building intelligent agents that can effectively reason, plan, and execute complex tasks on behalf of users.
• Establish best practices that improve LLM application efficiency, enable new agentic AI features for Stores customers with LLM capabilities.
• Design, implement large scale distributed agentic AI applications at scale, partnering with technical and business leaders in a collaborative environment to create value for our customers.
• Contribute to prioritization, estimation, and sprint planning activities.

About The Team

The charter of the Amazon Shopping Team is to improve shopping on Amazon using the conversational capabilities of large language models. We are working on an AI-first initiative to further improve the way we do search using large-scale foundation models. These foundation models are also used in downstream applications by various partner teams in Amazon Stores. Our goal is to build large language models (LLMs), which can empower conversational applications and facilitate online shopping.

Qualifications

The following are required:

• 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 experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Experience in a full-stack environment

The following are preferred:

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Expertise in building modern web applications with React, TypeScript, and component-driven architectures.
• Experience designing conversational or wizard-style UX patterns — guided workflows and real-time streaming interfaces.
• Experience designing or operating LLM-powered agent systems in production (tool orchestration, ReAct loops, multi-step reasoning)

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.