Software Development Engineer, Talent Alchemy

Join a startup-feel team within Amazons Executive Development organization thats building the future of talent development. Talent Alchemy is a small agile team where youll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on how hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees grow their careers. This is your chance to work on a product that directly shapes leadership development across one of the worlds most innovative companies.

The product provides data insights that fuel learning & development research generating unique insights that enable Amazon to methodically evolve its talent strategy. Talent Alchemy assists employees in gathering feedback on themselves and their direct reports while also powering formal development efforts hosted by learning programs across the company.

A day in the life
You will work as a full-stack developer (70% frontend facing features / 30% backend) building responsive JavaScript web applications with modern frameworks like React while using technologies including Java microservices in a distributed service-oriented architecture AWS technologies (Lambda DynamoDB Kinesis). This is a hands-on role with the expectation of significant time spent coding and contributing directly to the product.

You will be involved in every aspect of the processfrom idea generation and business analysis through technical design and software development. Your systems will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability operating at massive scale 24x7. You will have a system-wide architectural view of the solutions you build with the responsibility authority and autonomy to ensure success.

- 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
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle including coding standards software architectures code reviews source control management continuous deployments testing and operational excellence

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- 2 years of exposure to Front-end libraries/framework (React/Angular/Vue) and experience contributing to a frontend design system.
- Adapt LLMs for new languages domains and vision applications through continued pre-training fine-tuning and Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF).

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 Bellevue - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually