The GPS team works towards providing the payments platform that facilitates Amazon's Consumer, Seller and AWS business. The specific areas of responsibilities for the India team include the Flexible Payments Service (FPS), Amazon Simple Pay (ASP), Basic Account Storage Service (BASS), the Stored Value platform and the Component Reversal Workflow (CROW).

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.

Built on the same FPS platform, Amazon Simple Pay (ASP) is a payments-only service for digital goods & services providers and nonprofits to accept payments online. Amazon Simple Pay provides easy to integrate copy and paste HTML code (and buttons) to enable single-payments, subscriptions, marketplace payments and donations. Thus, enabling customers to easily make payments using the payment information stored in their Amazon.com accounts.

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The Amazon Traffic team in Bangalore is responsible for driving traffic into Amazon's retail websites and generates significant revenue through the Amazon affiliate program. Our 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. Refer to our affiliate network portal - https://affiliate-program.amazon.com for details. 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.

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., A9.com opened its Palo Alto, California, doors in October 2003 and Bangalore office in August 2004. A9.com's technology powers search on Amazon.com and other web sites.

The A9 India team is primarily geared towards the online advertisement market. 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. In supporting these businesses, we work in multiple technological areas, such as-

• Statistical and semantic text mining algorithms to extract the concepts of a web page and flag for unacceptable content.
• Using Hadoop technology for sponsored links traffic aggregation.
• Analytics and software to optimize placement and selection of sponsored links on Amazon web pages.
• Geographical targeting of sponsored links.
• A semi-automated way (automated + manual) of understanding the category of a website.
• Algorithms and statistical models of traffic patterns, for detection of invalid traffic for the sponsored links market

The team in India has a combination of engineering, analytical and operational talent working together to develop innovative solutions for the Sponsored Links business

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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 comprise of developers and testers to deliver end to end solutions. The Bangalore team is focused on helping customers accomplish their shopping goals on the flow from the detail page through checkout. Our direct goal is improving buying experience for our customers by driving clarity in product, offer and delivery information. The measures of success are increased clarity and product authority (incremental units, reduced CPU – contacts per unit), latency improvements (as measured by Click-to-Critical feature metrics) and a highly available, stable site (as measured by FATALs and uptime). We think about identifying opportunities in the context of putting the customer in the center of the shopping experience and developing solutions that provide rich, behavioral-driven improvements. We take a holistic approach to improving detail page speed, conversion, and layout with the goal of helping the customer make a purchase decision.

Checkout by Amazon^TM is a complete checkout and payments solution for e-commerce retailers. Buyers can use shipping addresses and payment methods stored in their Amazon.com accounts to checkout on any online retailer's website.

The changing nature of business requirements and the ever increasing volume of items make this an exciting space to design and develop scalable and flexible software systems.

Checkout by Amazon offers unique features including options to checkout with Amazon's 1-Click ® and Amazon PayPhrase. It includes tools for businesses to manage shipping charges, sales tax, promotions, and post-sale activities including refunds, cancellations, and chargebacks.

Bangalore team currently owns most of the critical features and functionality offered by CBA.

The 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.

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Junglee 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.