DESCRIPTION
Come help us create innovative capabilities for Amazon's Associates, managers, and leaders to support the evolution of People eXperience and Technology (PXT). The Workforce Solutions (WS) team builds and delivers world-class products and services for Amazon's employees. We believe that happy Amazon customers start with happy Amazon employees We give Amazon associates around the globe the flexibility to enrich their job experience through pay incentives and job mobility. We thrive on developing world-class experiences for associates worldwide to empower them to increase their income, explore job options, train, choose, and progress in their careers at Amazon. As a member of this team, you are changing people's lives by creating the tools that help them advance in their careers We're seeking a self-driven professional with strong communication skills who can deliver high-quality results in our fast-paced environment.
Key job responsibilities
* Lead the technical design and implementation of large-scale services and distributed systems that impact hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees globally
* Drive architectural decisions and technology choices that enable building scalable, maintainable, and efficient solutions
* Partner with product managers and business stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions
* Identify and resolve technical debt while maintaining system reliability and performance
* Champion operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, and continuous improvement of services
* Drive innovation in our technical stack and processes while maintaining high standards for code quality and testing
* Influence the technical direction of the team and contribute to the broader engineering community
* Serve as a technical leader, providing mentorship to junior engineers and helping to establish best practices and coding standards
A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of complex distributed systems while also mentoring other engineers on the team. You'll be responsible for making key architectural decisions, conducting design reviews, and ensuring the technical excellence of your team's deliverables. You'll collaborate with product managers and other technical teams to define technical strategy and roadmap, while staying hands-on with coding and implementation
About the team
Workforce Solutions (WS) is a horizontal, multi-discipline organization whose mission is to build the best people-forward technology to enable corporate recruitment for Amazon, globally. We build the intelligent technology products Amazon uses to make the right hiring decisions, every time, while being more equitable and candidate-centric in the end-to-end experience. We accomplish this by using our ability in product and program management, and design/research. Our portfolio of products is global (built mostly on native AWS), accounting for recruitment for all corporate roles. From the candidate-facing job site, to ensuring the role is filled - we build the entire gamut. We value people-centric solutions, and open exchange of ideas.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
* Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
* Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
* Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
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