Software Development Engineer III, Prime Benefits

Are you passionate about revolutionizing how millions of Prime members worldwide experience innovative benefits Join our team and lead technical strategy for groundbreaking benefit products that transform the Amazon ecosystem. Youll architect solutions that reach scale unimaginable elsewhere collaborating across Prime and Amazon to invent simplified approaches for complex challenges.

This role offers exceptional opportunities to influence multiple organizations through technical strategy while solving intricate problems spanning diverse tech stacks. Youll drive technical innovations in the benefit space by adopting novel approaches and technologies creating lasting impact for customers at massive scale.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead technical solutioning for complex architectural problems requiring multi-team coordination across Prime and Amazon organizations
- Drive adoption of engineering best practices while actively coaching and mentoring multiple engineers to strengthen team capabilities
- Architect and deliver scalable technical solutions for high-impact benefit innovations that serve millions of Prime members worldwide
- Own team architecture with system-wide perspective providing design guidance and ensuring solutions balance short-term delivery with long-term foundation
- Develop critical path code for complex systems while establishing robust software development practices including optimal data structures algorithms and operational excellence

A day in the life
Your day begins leading technical solutioning sessions for complex architectural challenges that span multiple teams and tech stacks. Youll spend time mentoring engineers reviewing code to ensure it fits the bigger picture and making key technical decisions that balance performance scalability and maintainability. Throughout the day youll collaborate with stakeholders across Prime and Amazon translating business requirements into innovative technical approaches while developing critical path code for systems that impact millions of customers.

About the team
Worldwide Primes north star vision is to create Earths most engaging satisfying and loved membership program delivering profitable growth by improving the Amazon experience. The Benefits Pricing & Constructs team contributes to this vision through four input levers: increasing potential value through new benefits and capability improvements making every current and future Prime member aware and excited about Primes value innovating and scaling new Prime constructs to reach new members and serve distinct segments and growing total Amazon long-term free cash flow through strategic investments across benefit partners and pricing decisions.

Our team builds the technical foundation that powers benefit innovations reaching millions of Prime members globally. Youll work in an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing mentorship and technical excellence while tackling problems that require creativity scale and customer obsession at every turn.

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience

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