Software Development Engineer PreStart Domain

Interested in working with the latest technology in the cloud computing space to impact millions of people The Joining Amazon Technology team is building cutting edge solutions to revolutionize the way we onboard 2.8 million Amazon new workers a year in over 60 countries. We do not depend on third party monolithic HR systems. Our software products use Amazon Web Services to intelligently work through the complexity of country and role differences and ensure new hires start successfully on Day 1 with delightful onboarding experiences. We enable all Amazon business success to onboard new workers to meet dynamic business and market demands e.g. over 100000 new hires in the US and Canada in record speed during the COVID19 pandemic and country and region holiday and prime day retail lifecycle spikes. Our mission is clear: We seek to be the most technically proficient HR organization in the world.

The Prestart Domain team is the core of the end to end Joining Amazon experience responsible to handle 100 global hiring traffic from various recruiting sources. All subsequent onboarding and HR processes depend on the HR profiles and related data Prestart systems ingest into the HR system. It is core to the success of the Joining Amazon journey as well as employee journey.

We are seeking experienced engineers with strong ownership. You will own and lead projects that impact new Amazonians around the globe. Amazon business success depends on your ability to innovate and enable Amazon workforces onboarding speed and success. If youre thrilled by the idea of ownership passionate about creating new features and services from scratch and comfortable with the pace of shipping software in cycles measured in weeks we would love to connect with you.

Exhibits excellent judgment
Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or the technology
Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
Strong results orientation
Thinks big

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java C or Python including objectoriented design
1 years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
3 years of noninternship professional software development experience


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience with designing and building largescale web services
Experience with serviceoriented architecture
Experience with supporting missioncritical 24x7 systems
Proven results and a history of project delivery
Experience working with Agile engineering practices

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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