Ever wondered what's involved in owing a key feature on Amazon’s websites across the globe that is actively used by hundreds of millions of customers? Does the opportunity of building and supporting the scale of business at Amazon fascinate you? If you answered yes, the Amazon Lists team is looking for engineers like you!

We are re-imagining the Lists experience on Amazon - making it simple, fun, and easy-to-use. We help customers turn impromptu shopping ideas into purchases through features like add and shop keywords where customers can add keywords to their Lists like “luxury espresso maker” and then find items related to their keywords to purchase. Finally, we make mobile shopping feel modern through intuitive gestures and mobile-first patterns. We also see massive opportunities to leverage Generative AI to surface personalized shopping lists to customers and help customize them.

This Software development position with Amazon Lists is a fit for someone who enjoys and thrives owning low latency, highly available stacks/services requiring strong problem-solving skills, has a solid computer science foundation, knowledge of backend design patterns, APIs and takes pride in operations excellence.

Successful candidates must also be innovative, flexible, self-directed, and able to design and write high-performance, reliable, maintainable code. This role requires the ability to creatively deal with ambiguity, be data-driven and juggle cross-organization complexity. If you enjoy working in a dynamic environment to deliver world class mission critical systems, this may be the career opportunity for you!

Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
- Deliver customer value in an iterative fashion while working towards longer term systems goals.
- Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.



About the team
Amazon List Services vends business logic & storage as a service. Our services are leveraged by clients to support Lists, Registries, Alexa and List-like experiences across Amazon CDO and subsidiaries.

Lists Services team supports 16+ businesses and 60+ clients across Amazon.