Software Development Engineer II, End User Messaging

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization we have a vision to provide business applications leveraging Amazons unique experience and expertise that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazons real-world experience to build opinionated turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Are you passionate about the intersection of cloud computing and mobile applications Join the Amazon Pinpoint team to build large-scale messaging application for app developers and enterprises to engage their users. We are ramping up the team to build out richer and more engaging interactions and experiences through Messaging. This is a unique opportunity to work with technologies at the bleeding edge and support a high-performing team that is working to change the email industry by ramping up features and technologies developers.

Amazon Pinpoint is recruiting a Software Development Engineer who will be responsible for being the technical leader responsible for helping driving messaging products including email and text messages. You will work with customers and other technology leaders at Amazon to help translate strategic business needs into features and projects and then work with your team to deliver those features and projects more quickly than many other people may think is possible. Successful candidates will be equally adept at driving a design review for a new distributed system as well as delivering a talk in front of hundreds of technology peers at yearly Amazon Web Services (AWS) conference re:Invent.

As the Software Development Engineer you will work as a technology leader and demonstrate exemplary practice in design and implementation of new scalable services. You will lead technology areas that drive solutions for a super solid scalable efficient and extremely fault tolerant service. You will help influencing overall strategy by helping define the product features driving system architecture and spearheading the best practices that enable a quality product. The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving some of the hardest engineering challenges in distributed systems at massive scale on an ongoing basis and have a demonstrable track record for delivering successful products.

The best part of working with Amazon Pinpoint is the chance to help customers solve exciting new challenges and create new web-based experiences every day that impacts millions of users. AWS customers are innovators and you will have the chance to work with them to understand their challenges and design new offerings. Join us and make history building a massive-scale messaging system!

This hands-on position requires broad engineering competence and in-depth technical knowledge of service engineering as well as demonstrated experience successfully planning organizing and conducting software development projects in a dynamic environment. As the Software Development Engineer you will engage in the following key responsibilities:



Key job responsibilities
Ability to quickly deliver impactful customer features.
Demonstrate Amazons leadership principles.
Lead team strategy and plan future diretcion

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- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually