Job Description

DESCRIPTION

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Within Amazon Management Experiences (AMX), this role contributes to delivering leadership experiences and career development tools that serve all Amazonians globally. As part of a 1,400+ person organization, the team leverages enterprise-scale technology solutions to support career growth, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness across Amazon's diverse business units. Working closely with Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology stack and collaborating with science teams, AMX delivers innovative solutions that impact employee experiences and leadership capabilities throughout the company's worldwide operations.



Use your deep technical skills and experience to make Amazon a better place to work and delight our customers by joining Amazon Connections.



Amazon Connections is an innovative program that gives Amazonians an effective way to give feedback on the workplace and help shape the future of the company. By asking employees quick questions every day, Connection leverages real time information to learn more about their experiences and introduce positive changes with internal business partners around the world. Our goal is to strengthen Amazon's workplace culture and help develop leaders who earn trust, remove barriers to excellence and make Amazon an inspiring place to work.



The team works on the software and systems that helps every Amazonian. We build the data infrastructure and science that helps leaders and managers use Connections data to make Amazon better.




In this role you will:

Work with teams across the org to deliver large distributed projects to delight our customers



Write high-quality, efficient, testable code in Java and other object-oriented languages



Build highly available, secure, systems in a microservices architecture



Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry



Find out what it takes to engineer systems for "Amazon Scale"



Own and operate the systems that you build



Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement



Get firsthand experience engineering client apps as well as AWS services such as Airflow, Glue, DynamoDB and others



Key job responsibilities

Serve as a technical lead on demanding, cross-functional projects that drive Amazon's e-commerce innovation


Build strong collaborations across product, engineering, and science teams to successfully deploy solutions at Amazon scale


Drive technical architecture decisions and establish engineering practices that ensure scalability, reliability, and performance


Translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions


Evaluate and make decisions about new technologies and tools that advance our technical capabilities


Mentor and guide junior engineers on design, coding, troubleshooting, and operational excellence


Navigate cross-functional dependencies, assess risks, and make appropriate trade-offs weighing value vs. time to market


Foster an environment that promotes rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and incremental value delivery


Technical Leadership:




Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of highly scalable distributed systems


o Drive adoption of best practices in code quality, testing, and technical documentation o Make significant contributions to team roadmap and future planning



Stay informed about latest technical advancements and identify opportunities to apply them


Participate in the Amazon-wide Software Development Community through internal/external events


A day in the life

You will work cross functionally with Data Engineers, product managers, Scientists and other Software engineers (SDE). Throughout the day you could be working on a new algorithm, deep diving a performance issue, and mentoring SDEs on a large product launch. You will be a technical leader on the team.




About the team

We value work-life harmony and strive for flexibility in our working culture. When we feel supported both in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve. While the position includes on-call responsibilities, we emphasize building robust, fault-tolerant systems to minimize disruptions.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

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5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience Bachelor's 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.



Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.