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Software Development Engineer - Landing Page Optimization at Amazon.com

Job listed on 2007-09-14

Job Description

Amazon's new team (LPO) seeks an extraordinarily talented senior engineer to brainstorm, implement and maintain innovative features for our US and international web sites. The LPO team finds ways to optimize the "landing page," the first page served in any customer visit--which could be almost any page on the site, from a product detail page to a category page to a page of catalog search results. Projects will range from new customer-facing website features to back-end data mining systems. Developers on the team will have complete ownership of their projects, from initial conception through prototyping, design, implementation, and operations, and the impact of each project will be measured through a controlled statistical experiment--engineers will be able to quantify with confidence the effect of their work. Team members will have access to Amazon's massive data store of product and customer information and will seek innovative ways to use it to enhance the customer experience. Since the team is new, employees joining now will have the chance to help define the team itself: its mission, its scope, its problem space, and the kinds of solutions it implements.

Like all of Amazon, the team environment is:

(a) entrepreneurial: new ideas are encouraged and valued;

(b) data-driven: facts and figures win out over unsupported opinion every time; and

(c) fast-paced: product cycles are short, development is done incrementally, and new features launch every month or less.

And on top of that, it's just a lot of fun.

Qualifications:

Candidates must be extremely intelligent and competent programmers with at least a BS in computer science (or equivalent experience) and 2 years of industry experience.

Strong analytical and logical ability and excellent communication skills are also required.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for the customer experience and high judgment about both product features and project schedules.

No experience with any particular language or other technology is necessary, but we would expect any strong candidate to be proficient in at least one of C, C++, Java, or Perl.

Expertise in reliable, scalable, maintainable production systems is a strong plus.

How to Apply

Please email your resume to 024486-resumes@amazon.com and include "stuntdubl.com" in the subject line.

Please mention that you found this listing on the stuntdubl.com job board