The Software Development Engineer II role focuses on designing and building systems for Amazon's Lists and Collaborative Shopping experiences. The team aims to enhance how customers curate and connect through lists by integrating generative AI into their core framework. This position offers end-to-end ownership, allowing engineers to tackle ambiguous problems and create scalable distributed systems. Collaboration with applied scientists, product managers, and designers is essential to deliver impactful customer-facing features.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience

• Design and build systems that power Amazon's Lists and Collaborative Shopping experiences
• Work on services that integrate AI-native capabilities into the core framework
• Dive into ambiguous customer problems and design scalable distributed systems
• Write production code and measure customer impact
• Collaborate closely with applied scientists, product managers, and designers to ship features

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.