Software Development Engineer II, Career Choice Technology

Career Choice is Amazon's education benefit available to nearly 1M Amazon Associates in 14 countries. This program is currently expanding to help to support our Associates by offering foundational GED and language programs, as well as Associates and Bachelor's degree support, on top of the upskilling opportunities we already offer.

If you enjoy solving hard problems and have designed products that scale to meet demand, combine the best of internal and external services, and grow to meet the complex needs of your customers, you will fit right in.

We are technical experts, but we go further. We know technology always exists in a larger context, so we create technical solutions from our customer's perspective to guarantee our solutions always deliver the intended result.

In this role, you will own the design of major features from end-to-end, from Web UI and mobile app to dependent services and persistent storage.

Can you work with engineers from many backgrounds to translate designs into quality software that is highly scalable, available, low latency, and high performing.

and reflects the best combination of the ideas in the room? If so, your design will get into production... so get ready to interact directly with the people who use your software, hear their feedback and use it to make your system even better!

Key job responsibilities

You're perfect for this role if you...

• Possess knowledge and skills in building highly interactive interfaces using modern JavaScript tooling like React.
• Design products that scale to meet demand.
• Combine the best of internal and external services, and grow to meet the complex needs of your customers.
• Enjoy solving problems that will take you beyond your technical abilities.
• Work well in a heterogeneous environment of different languages and technologies, and can bring flexibility, speed and quality to this team.
• Get excited about technology, have a strong interest in learning and playing with the latest technologies.
• Build compelling web applications and mobile applications.
• Be obsessed about customer experience.

A day in the life

• We have a standard cadence of team meetings to share work as well as casual, spontaneous collaboration often sparked through conversations in our team meetings or other communication channels.
• You will work directly within a 2 pizza development team and have significant ownership as you work within and across teams in order to meet deadlines and deliver results.
• Develop front end components for Career Choice's associate and school-portal facing experiences.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
30+ days ago