SDE II Amazon Legal Tech, Legal Tech

Do you want to build products that solve meaningful business challenges and improve productivity across Amazon

Amazon Legal Technologies is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join our team building mission-critical services that transform how legal and business operations work at Amazon. Our systems process over millions transactions annually serving thousands of daily users. We manage the contract lifecycle across Amazon.

As an SDE II youll design and deliver features that directly impact how Amazon makes critical business decisions. Youll work across our full technology stackfrom feature-rich web portals where users create and manage workflows using templates to APIs serving hundreds of active clients to notification systems for real-time updates. Youll leverage AI technologies to improve customer experience automate routine operations and drive efficiency gains across the organization.

Amazon Legal Technologies is an innovative and high-energy team that supports Amazons legal operations worldwide. We focus on easy-to-use highly secure and ingenious solutions that allow our business to efficiently scale for the future. Were looking for an engineer who is excited by unique challenges and passionate about using the latest technologiesincluding AI focused development to solve real customer needs.

Key job responsibilities
Own Technical Delivery

- Design and implement features for legal technology platforms including workflow automation template systems and advanced search

- Take end-to-end ownership from design through deployment maintaining 99.9% availability

- Build secure scalable solutions using AWS services and distributed systems

- Instrument code with metrics to drive data-driven decisions

- Build AI-driven features that reduce processing time and automate routine decisions

- Leverage AI to Transform Operations

Collaborate and Grow

- Partner with Legal Finance and business teams to solve workflow challenges

- Mentor junior engineers and participate in code reviews

- Learn from senior engineers and Principal Engineers through design reviews
- Drive adoption of new capabilities across the organization

Operational Excellence

- Participate in on-call rotations for 24/7 reliability

- Monitor system health and respond to operational issues

- Use metrics to identify improvement opportunities
- Maintain systems built on NAWS infrastructure

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development 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
- Masters 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