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Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Special Projects

Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, USA
$129.3K a year
Full-time

We are a passionate team of doers that apply cutting-edge advances in technology to solve real-world problems and transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join an exciting new project team working to build a completely new, best in class product.

Our team is fast paced, highly collaborative and is organized like a startup. As a Software Development Engineer, you will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for customers and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.

We are constantly learning through programs that are local, regional, and global. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team highly values work-life balance, mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment.

We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.

Key job responsibilities

  • Implement best practices in modern software engineering : Frontend and Backend application design, implementation, testing, version control, documentation, deployment, monitoring and operations
  • Translate requirements into robust, efficient, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture
  • Write high-quality code and participate in design and code reviews to maintain our development standards
  • Work with product and design teams to deliver and operate large scale, distributed services in the cloud
  • Generate documentation to support regulatory requirements
  • Encourage and support knowledge-sharing within team and external groups
  • Mentor junior development engineers
  • Implement test automation on all code implemented through unit testing and integration testing

About the team

Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the extreme.

We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds.

If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.

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
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