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What is next key business driver for Amazon Retail business after Prime? How to forecast the growth rate for launching PrimeNow? What if Amazon enables next day delivery across US? What is the lever to boost growth in international countries? If youre obsessed to get answers of these questions, come join us!
Topline Forecasting team aims to build an automated system to answer those what-if questions and help Amazon senior leadership to make key business decisions in a more scientific way, with the huge amount of data in Amazon, using state-of-the-art large scale Big Data technologies, as well as Statistical and Machine Learning techniques.
As a member of the Topline Forecasting team, you'll play a key role in solving some of the world's most complex technical challenges associated with Forecasting. You will be expect to be extremely creative to invent and simplify to get problem addressed, and build things really impactful to the company.
If you are results driven, love to work with data and digging value out of it, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build innovative solutions to challenging problems that directly impact the company's bottom-line, we want to talk with you.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C including object-oriented design
1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
- Experience or interest in Machine Learning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience developing and operating medium to large sized software systems
Experience in Object Oriented Analysis and Design skills
Master of Science in Computer Science or related engineering field
Expertise in Statistics
Experience developing software in an agile environment
Experience on designing large scale distributed system
Strong problem-solving and data analytical skills
Great communication skills
Seattle, WA
Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) segments. It sells merchandise and content purchased for resale from third-party sellers through physical stores and online stores.
The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo devices; provides Kindle Direct Publishing, an online service that allows independent authors and publishers to make their books available in the Kindle Store; and develops and produces media content.
In addition, it offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Websites, as well as their own branded Websites; and programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, the company provides compute, storage, database, and other AWS services, as well as compute, storage, database offerings, fulfillment, publishing, digital content subscriptions, advertising, and co-branded credit card agreement services.
Additionally, it offers Amazon Prime, a membership program, which provides free shipping of various items; access to streaming of movies and TV episodes; and other services. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, and content creators. Amazon.com, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Volkswagen AG. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.