• Programming experience with at least one software programming language.
• 1+ years of experience in software development
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or related technical discipline
• Must be currently enrolled in school or graduated within the last 12 months

Job summary
The Amazon Search team is responsible for the worldwide customer-facing search features on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices – everything from the moment a customer clicks into the search box to when they view search results.

As a software development engineer, you will work on end-to-end features of search autocomplete and spelling corrections. Autocomplete accounts for half of all Search traffic on Amazon; spelling correction touches all searches. We impact the lives of hundreds of millions of Amazon customers every day. Our systems help customers formulate better searches that lead to higher converting experiences and enabling serendipitous discovery of products. You will apply your expertise to build and serve the state-of-the-art machine learning and deep learning models; you will build distributed services with high concurrency, low latency and massive scalability, and you will improve how suggestions are rendered on customers' phones and computers. All your work has a direct and visible impact on shopping experiences of Amazon customers.

Joining this team, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), Earth's most customer-centric company.

• Proven experience with object-oriented design and coding skills (C/C++ and/or Java preferably on a UNIX or Linux platform)
• At least 2 years of professional experience working in a software development role that builds large-scale distributed systems.
• Possess effective communication skills and ability to accurately relay crucial information to teams across the organization
• Experience with Amazon Web Services such as S3, EMR, IAM, DynamoDB etc.
• Experience working with Lucene, Solr, or ElasticSearch.
• Experience with Native apps development in iOS and Android.

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