Software Development Engineer

Come help us create innovative capabilities for Amazons Associates managers and leaders to support the evolution of People eXperience and Technology (PXT). The Workforce Solutions (WS) team builds and delivers world-class products/services for Amazons employees we believe that happy Amazon customers start with happy Amazon employees! We give Amazon associates around the globe the flexibility to enrich their job experience through pay incentives and job mobility. We thrive on developing world-class experiences for associates worldwide to empower them to increase their income explore job options train choose and progress in their careers at Amazon. As a member of this team you are changing peoples lives by creating the tools that help them advance in their careers! Were seeking a self-driven professional with strong communication skills who can deliver high-quality results in our fast-paced environment.

Key job responsibilities
- Development of the end-to-end services and processes to give Amazon employees options for pay training and job choices.
- Build the most extensive pay premium job training and career mobility options on earth.
- Use modern technologies to solve complex problems at scale.
- Deliver solutions that scale in volume and handle the complexity of diverse workflows and country specific rules/regulations.
- Own automation of business processes in a full stack mostly serverless environment using proven as well as evolving native AWS services and other technologies to create a friction free user experience.
- Solve the challenging problem of scaling these services to serve hundreds of thousands of Amazonians across the globe in real-time.
- Be a technical innovator that is not afraid to challenge the norms and innovate.
- Execute against project plans and delivery commitments.
- Build highly available scalable and performant tier-one services to power responsive intuitive and sleek experiences for customers.
- Solve complex business and technical problems by diving deep collecting data to make well informed decisions and using sound judgement in the face of insufficient data.
- Work with the latest technologies to innovate on behalf of the employee.

A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer you will design develop and test Amazon-scale enterprise business systems serving hundreds of thousands associates worldwide. You will also continuously learn new technologies the latest industry techniques and get to use the newest AWS addition you will get to develop new systems support robust business tools and integrate with other internal systems within Amazons world-class operations.

About the team
Workforce Solutions (WS) is a horizontal multi-discipline organization whose mission is to build the best people-forward technology to enable corporate recruitment for Amazon globally. We build the intelligent technology products Amazon uses to make the right hiring decisions every time while being more equitable and candidate-centric in the end-to-end experience. We accomplish this by using our ability in product and program management and design/research. Our portfolio of products is global (built mostly on native AWS) accounting for recruitment for all corporate roles. From the candidate-facing job site to ensuring the role is filled - we build the entire gamut. We value people-centric solutions and open exchange of ideas. The team has a clear product and service north star but remains flexible in the paths to achieve that goal.

- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations

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