Senior Software Engineer, APM Negotiation Intelligence

DESCRIPTION

The Automated Profitability Management (APM) team improves the long term success of Amazon Retail by driving lower costs and unlocking new product selection. Our team builds software and machine learning (ML) models to optimize contract negotiations between thousands of vendors and Amazon. We directly influence the end-customer experience worldwide by determining the optimal combination of terms under which Amazon should acquire its inventory. We focus on product costs but also cover supply chain (Who pays the initial shipping costs?), marketing (Should a vendor fund advertising?), reverse-logistics (Who pays for damaged products? What about unsold inventory?) and more. Our mission is to provide to our customers the world’s largest product assortment at competitive prices, through long term partnership with our vendors. The vision of our team is to automate and improve Amazon's retail profitability through the innovative application of machine learning science and engineering. Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a Senior SDE to drive the development of new infrastructure to support the scientists in the development of our ML models. In this role, you will be a technical expert with significant scope and impact. You will work closely with a group of Software Development Engineers, Product Managers, Scientists, Data and Business Intelligence Engineers to create the solutions and infrastructure necessary to drive our team’s initiatives, leveraging AWS tooling but adding additional layers to support internal needs. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Vancouver, BC, CAN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team