Amazon Software Development Engineer 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

85357000

As a Software Development Engineer, you’ll be accountable to help define your team's system architecture. You’ll own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall your team's technical strategy. You’ll collaborate closely with UX designers, product owners, and other engineering team members to help define the product. As an experienced engineer, you will provide the technical experience to the team, drive best practices, mentor other engineers and drive continuous improvements in engineering and operational excellence. You will have an opportunity to expand your own skills by learning from very best software engineers and architects in the world.This role offers wide scope, autonomy, and ownership. You will own the design of major deliverables end-to-end and work closely with experienced engineers to execute them. You should be willing to take on challenging initiatives and be capable of working both independently and with others as a team. You will design, build, test, and own highly scalable, available, and high performing low latency systems. You will own full stack and entire life-cycle of our products, from the roadmap to the architecture to implementation and continuous iterative development. You will be leveraging cutting edge AWS technologies such as DynamoDB, S3, Amazon Kinesis, SQS, and SNS to build your solutions.Key job responsibilities
1) Work directly with your stakeholders and peers to brainstorm, design, prototype, build, test, and iterate on new ideas to build new services and products3) Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews
4) Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability, extensibility as needed

- 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
- 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent