A9.com, Inc. researches and builds innovative technologies to improve search experience for e-commerce applications. A separately branded and operated subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., The A9 India team is primarily geared towards the online advertisement market and cloudsearch, a fully managed AWS search service offering.
As part of A9, we contribute to the development and operations for various Sponsored Links programs in Amazon, including Product Ads, Clickriver, Display Ads and Third-party Sponsored Links. The team in India has a combination of engineering, analytical and operational talent working together to develop innovative solutions for the Sponsored Links business.
The search team in Bangalore focuses on development of CloudSearch, fully-managed AWS search service in the cloud that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale search applications. The team works on both client side infrastructure including adapters for converting and uploading customer.s data and the server side components.
TopThe Associates team in Bangalore is responsible for driving traffic into Amazon.s retail websites and generates significant revenue through the Amazon affiliate program. Team.s mission is to build scalable, self-service advertising solutions for hundreds of thousands of publishers (affiliates) worldwide. We own the entire set of tools and platforms that our affiliates use to build links/widgets and advertise Amazon products . whether it.s a book, a Kindle, a camera, a lawnmower, or any other product sold on Amazon. This involves development both on the frontend (HTML, Perl, JavaScript, and AJAX) as well as backend components (built in C++ and Java) that interface with large-scale, multi-tiered systems across the Amazon platform.
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising businesses. Ad Policing is part of Amazon Product Ads, a strategic start-up with support and interest from business units across the company as well as Amazon.s top management. They are a motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team building a high growth business. They are entrepreneurial and have a bias for action and a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. The team offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on the future vision for Amazon. The Ad Policing team, based in Bangalore, is responsible for ensuring that ads and advertiser websites are appropriate, safe, genuine and accurate. Ad Policing protects the customer experience and is a critical component of our business success. One of the earliest teams to be established in Amazon Bangalore, Ad Policing has both Operations and Development teams in Bangalore supporting multiple ad programs in markets around the world.
Traffic Quality team is part of A9.com Advertising technology group and is primary business and technology owner for ensuring high traffic quality for multiple ad-programs within Amazon. Teams assess the quality of advertising traffic by detecting invalid traffic. Invalid traffic encompasses robot traffic, unintentional clicks, publisher fraud and other indicators of low value to advertisers. This will help to optimize impression buying on third party sites, and ensure delivery of quality traffic to Amazon advertisers. Team own the research and development of advance techniques to evaluate the quality of advertising traffic applying data mining, machine learning, and statistical techniques. Team also own developing and maintaining the distributed big-data analytics platform that hosts these advanced algorithms. The platform will handle internet-scale traffic data of the order of billion events on daily basis. Team.s distributed systems are built on cutting edge scalable technologies such as Hadoop and Amazon's EC2 and S3 cloud services.
TopAmazon Appstore for Android lets you instantly download games and mobile apps to your Android device. You can shop Amazon Appstore for Android from your Kindle Fire, your computer, or from our Amazon Appstore for Android app. The Appstore was launched in Mar-2011 and in our first year, customers have already bought millions of apps and games for their Kindle Fire and other Android devices. The Amazon Appstore provides customers access to more than 31K apps from different developers.
The Appstore team in India develops innovative technology and provides services for mobile app content ingestion and verification. Our direct goal is to improve the Appstore Developer experience. Teams solve hard, challenging problems such as reducing app approval latency through an automated app verification system, or implementing a workflow-based solution. Our technology teams work with cloud-computing services (AWS), Android SDK, to develop scalable content ingestion services and systems.
TopThe Amazon Instant Video team delivers high-quality instant video to many Amazon customers through subscriptions and a-la-carte purchase options. Amazon Instant Video works on an ever increasing number of devices, from computer to TVs, set top boxes and beyond. Our mission is to have the widest selection of movies and TV episodes available with the broadest device support. We handle large-scale video processing and delivery, enable cutting-edge integration with consumer electronics devices like the Kindle Fire and ship highly scalable customer-facing products and services. Every day we face the challenges of a fast paced market and expanding technology set, paving the way to ubiquitous availability of content and pushing the envelope of streaming video quality.
Amazon Instant Video team in Bangalore owns Sony Bravia, TiVO, Vizio, Samsung, Panasonic and Unbox platforms.
TopMYHABIT (www.myhabit.com) was launched by Amazon in May 2011, and is Amazon.s first foray into the competitive flash sales business. MYHABIT sales, which typically last between 3 and 4 days, offer discounts on high end designer goods with free shipping and returns. The Event Workflow Team (EWF) owns the event management platform and workflows. The platform provides applications that help MYHABIT Brand Partner Managers, Production, Planning, and MYHABIT embellishment teams define and manage sales on www.myhabit.com. The EWF team also owns the MYHABIT Gateway (https://gateway.myhabit.com) that is used by MYHABIT vendors to view sales status and take actions during various phases of sales setup. The MYHABIT Gateway also provides analytical sales data to vendors.
The platform developed by the EWF development team in Bangalore is also used by Amazon BuyVIP (www.buyvip.de), a flash sales Top
Amazon Prime, is the membership program that gives customers fast and free unlimited shipping, instant free video streaming of more than 17,000 movies & TV shows and access to thousands of Kindle books. The Amazon Prime team at Bangalore focuses on building features, services and tools for customers using cutting-edge technology.
TopExternal Payments Services is a complete checkout and payments solution for e-commerce retailers. Customers can use shipping addresses and payment methods stored in their Amazon.com accounts to checkout on any online retailer.s website.
External Payments Services offers unique features including options to checkout with Amazon's 1-Click® it includes tools for businesses to manage shipping charges, sales tax, promotions, and post-sale activities including refunds, cancellations, and chargebacks.
The Bangalore team is responsible for developing and maintaining most of the critical features and functionality offered by External Payments Services.
TopGPS is the group that builds and manages the payments platform to facilitate Amazon.s buyer, seller and developer businesses. The vision of GPS is to be earth.s most customer-centric payments business. Our mission is to provide the highest value, lowest friction payment solutions. We work to create a financially robust and game changing payments business that facilitates the customer.s use of payment methods to drive repeat sales and increase customer loyalty.
The GPS team in India helps support the vision by owning and managing the Flexible Payments Service (FPS), Stored Value platform services, Amazon Payments Website (payments.amazon.com), Amazon Reversal Platform and Payments Integration services that are part of GPS.
Amazon Flexible Payments ServiceTM (Amazon FPS) is the first payments service designed from the ground up for developers. It is built on top of Amazon.s reliable and scalable payments infrastructure and provides developers with a convenient way to charge Amazon.s tens of millions of customers (with their permission, of course!). Amazon customers can pay using the same login credentials, shipping address and payment information they already have on file with Amazon. With Amazon FPS, developers can accept payments on their website for selling goods or services, raise donations, execute recurring payments, and send payments.
TopJunglee is an online product comparison and advertising site offered by Amazon which enables customers to find and discover products from online and offline retailers in India and from Amazon.com. Junglee organizes massive selection and multiple buying options from hundreds of sellers, and leverages Amazon.s proven technologies and millions of customer reviews to help customers make smart purchase decisions. Customers can discover over 1.2 crore products and 14,000 brands, and purchase items directly from hundreds of retailers including Homeshop18, UniverCell, Hidesign, Gitanjali, The Bombay Store, Fabindia, Bata India Limited, Dabur Uveda, Microsoft India Store, Reebok, and Amazon.com. Customers can buy products online by following the link to the seller.s website or find a seller.s physical store if they would rather purchase the product in person or call the seller and place an order by phone. Junglee has an ambitious vision of organizing selection and buying choices and it.s day one for us. We are relentlessly focused on adding selection and making it convenient for customers to find, discover, and shop anything using our service. We are keen to hear your opinion, so, please share any feedback you may have for us. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter. To know more about Junglee, Log on to www.junglee.com.
TopThe Retail Customer Experience (RCX) team's mission is to make Amazon retail websites the best shopping experiences on the Internet. We tailor the experience to accommodate our growing and diverse selection; helping customers make buying decisions, enabling discovery of products they were not aware of, and addressing customer pain points.
The RCX team in Bangalore was formed in July 2009. The team is new, young, energetic growing unit that comprises developers and testers to deliver end-to-end solutions.
TopRetail Systems provides the technology that powers Amazon the retailer. The group has a strong presence in Bangalore, and teams in Bangalore own many critical services that help Amazon provide our millions of customers worldwide with the most comprehensive selection at the best value possible. A brief about each of these teams is below. Looking to build and maintain world-class software services and influence shopper behavior all over the world? As a member of Amazon's Global Retail Systems Development team, you'll play a key role in driving our retail business. The Retail Systems teams are responsible for building large scale automated systems that drive our pricing strategies, manage our automated merchandizing and promotion initiatives, manage our massive product selection and drive efficiencies in our supply chain.
The Pricing Analytics and Operations team builds mechanisms to empower Amazon make the right informed decisions. The team in Bangalore and Chennai develops systems that define, gather, analyze and distribute intelligence on dimensions relevant to our customer. The team employs various advanced technologies related to machine learning, information retrieval, data mining, large scale information management to accomplish this.
The Pricing team in Bangalore solves the world.s most complex technical challenges in pricing optimization, large-scale computing, distributed systems, web applications, algorithms and data mining - to name a few. The team in Bangalore is designing & developing the next generation systems, services and tools for pricing to scale these further.
The Promotion Services team in Bangalore owns multiple services that empower promotions at Amazon.s retail websites. Being a new team that was setup in early 2011 in Amazon.s Bangalore office, it is a growing unit. It owns products end-to-end, right from business requirements to delivery. To start with, the team is building solutions for Loyalty Points & Product Bundles. The team is focused on innovating around its products to drive customer loyalty and improve the shopping experience at Amazon.
The Retail Business Services (RBS) group in Bangalore is an integral part of the Amazon online product lifecycle and buying operations. The team is designed to ensure Amazon remains competitive in the online retail space with the best price, wide selection and good product information. The team.s primary role is to create and enhance retail selection on the worldwide Amazon online catalog. The tasks handled by this group have a direct impact on customer buying decisions and online user experience.
TopThe Amazon Deals and Events Team owns the global Deals experience on Amazon and the marketing of the key shopping events. The team provides the technology and expertise necessary to identify and evaluate deals, surface them in a personalized and habit-forming way to customers, and executes marketing activities across multiple channels including Email, Social, and Mobile. The team is responsible for building highly scalable complex distributed systems to discover, manage and vend deals as well as the customer experience and the widgets used to surface the deals. We use various technologies including Java, Ajax, JavaScript, C++ and the latest in Machine Learning and Personalization algorithms. You can see our existing products at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/.
The goal of the email automation initiative is to further the vision of the Traffic Organization by sending meaningful, targeted email to our customers. This team is accountable for all Marketing email sent from Amazon.com. Traffic Email team owns key components of Email channel and is working on a foundation platform. The roadmap is to use machine learning to improve the targeting and provide personalized content through customer segmentation.
The Amazon Social Media team is focused on building next generation infrastructure, applications and features to enhance the overall buying experience and help customers make informed buying decisions through social sharing, recommendations and suggestions to individuals and their social groups. The team builds features that help customers share their online stories, receive recommendations based on their personal interests/likes and provide suggestions on social gifting. These engineering activities have direct impact on the customer experience and Amazon.s brand across various social media platforms. The team in Bangalore is encouraged to innovate on behalf of customers through viral applications, enabling sharing through new social media platforms, harnessing social conversations and mapping them to product offerings and end-to-end testing of all new feature offerings.
TopThe Transaction Risk Management Services (TRMS) team at Amazon safeguards all Amazon Marketplaces from Fraudulent and Abusive practices and in doing so ensures long-term buyer, seller and other stakeholders' satisfaction and builds trust. The team does this by employing a combination of Automated and Manual Investigations into the transactions taking place on the Buying and selling platforms at Amazon.