Sr. Software Development Engineer, Fitness & Fandom

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to drive the technical vision and delivery of our Licensed Sports fan experience—building the systems that power end-to-end fan shopping across NFL, NCAA, MLB, NBA, NHL, International Soccer, F1, and emerging leagues. You will help make Amazon the premier licensed sports shopping destination by designing and building scalable, AI-powered systems that deliver personalized, event-driven experiences to millions of fans.

Responsibilities

• Fan CX Platform Architecture: Design and build the backend systems and APIs that power the Licensed Sports Fan Shop, including fan-first browse, discovery, and personalization services driven by Sports Profiles, event-driven content pipelines, and AI/ML-powered ranking and recommendations.
• AI/ML Systems & Integration: Architect and implement automated content generation pipelines leveraging LLMs and generative image models to produce timely, elevated shopping destinations around tentpole sporting events (NFL Season, March Madness, etc.). Own the integration of model outputs into production CX surfaces.
• Sports Profiles & Personalization Services: Design and build scalable personalization services that activate Customer Sports Profiles across Amazon surfaces—ingesting signals, computing fan affinities, and serving real-time personalized experiences at scale.
• Event-Driven Infrastructure: Build event-driven systems that detect and respond to real-world sporting events (game days, championships, transfers, drafts) to trigger timely content updates, merchandising changes, and customer notifications.
• Operational Excellence & Scale: Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of fan experience services.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring engineers. Influence engineering best practices across the broader organization.
• Data & Metrics Infrastructure: Build instrumentation, metrics pipelines, and experimentation frameworks to measure feature impact.

Requirements

• 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Pay

USA, WA, Seattle - $168,100.00 - $227,400.00 USD annually.

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support.
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.