Amazon Software Development Engineer III Employee 

United States, Massachusetts, Boston 

100530362

Amazon is hiring thousands of workers every week across 60+ countries. The Work Authorization team ensures that all employees hired (into all lines of business, globally) are legally authorized to work and remain authorized to work throughout their employment. We are building a system to streamline the work authorization determination process by eliminating manual interventions (where legally permissible) without compromising compliance. This solution will include building dedicated web applications to satisfy legal requirements specific to each country or region
As a Software Developer you will have direct influence on this greenfield project by designing and implementing highly scalable solutions and applying technology to optimize business problems.
As a Software Development Engineer, you will take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous HR, operational, and business problems. You will own and heavily influence the architecture and design, and will write a significant portion of the “critical-path” code. You will influence the team’s technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to priorities and approach. You contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operations. You are empowered to own all aspects of solutions end-to-end through full stack software development. Successful candidates are strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivering large scale solutions.Key job responsibilities
As a SDE III on the team, you will own highly impactful services, responsible for design, build, and maintenance of data platform and identity services. You will own and enhance duplicate detection, login and identity creation, profile management and automation of several critical services for successful pre-boarding. A successful SDE III will have a broad array of experiences, exceptional design skills, excellent technical judgement and problem solving ability, good communication skills and a leading technical contributor. The software you write will impact millions of Amazonians globally, and will require a breadth of technical development knowledge. Daily work will involve interacting with engineers, product managers, SDMs and stakeholders.
A day in the life

- 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

- 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
- Experience leading and influencing your team or organization