Software Development Engineer

Job summary Our team We are responsible for creating hiring solutions for millions of applicants and future Amazonians. Amazon has 1.2M employees worldwide with plans for continued growth. Here you’ll be part of a team that builds scalable international solutions impacting unprecedented number of candidate experiences. We create global solutions that not only scale up in volume but also handle the complexity of diverse workflows and country specific rules/regulations. Our team is growing rapidly at multiple locations. If you have the drive tenacity an entrepreneurial spirit and most importantly the day 1 spark to take on ambiguous problems head on in a fast-paced environment this is the place for you! The role As part of our growth and expansion we are setting up brand new teams to build end-to-end hiring solutions on Native AWS from ground up. This solution will handle all phases of hiring process from job creation search and application to all the way candidate day 1 experience. As a Software Development Engineer you will drive the development of services and assets for an external facing mobile first global solution that will be used by millions of applicants aspiring to work at Amazon. You will own automation of business processes using proven as well as evolving AWS services and other technologies to create a friction free customer experience. Your tier-one services will have highest standards and be available 24×7 scale under massive load and perform consistently. We want you if – · You strive to build highly available scalable and performant tier-one services to power responsive intuitive and sleek experiences for customers. · You have high standards and drive a culture of excellence grow and mature a young team to take them to the next level. · You are an excellent communicator both verbal and written and equally adept at communicating upwards and downwards. · You are curious love problem-solving diving deep collecting data to make well informed decisions but use sound judgement in the face of insufficient data. · You follow the latest technologies and motivate your teams to innovate. · You have strong leadership qualities and a track record of delivering great solutions. Key job responsibilities In this role you will – · Be a technical leader that is not afraid to challenge the norms and innovate. · Own drive and deliver software solutions · Execute against project plans and delivery commitments. · Develop relationships with internal and external partner teams to move fast. · Help establish the long-term success strategy for your systems development best practices and operational excellence processes. · Collaborate with peers to ensure your strategies are in alignment with the rest of the development teams. · Develop junior and new team members by mentoring them on multiple fronts. A day in the life Daily activities include collaborating with other software developers and product team to define design develop test deploy and maintain a variety of front and back-end solutions using native AWS services. Daily you will: · participate in stand-up planning leadership and product meetings · write test review high-quality code · research and design novel software solutions · estimate write and update requirements design and required documentation Once a month be part of on-call rotation to support any customer impacting incidents. Team has a very low record of incidents requiring work outside normal hours. You’ll help improve and maintain our high standards. About the team Our team is new and growing. As an early team member you’ll help create and define the processes and tooling we use to delight our customers. Our goal is to provide job candidates with a frictionless hiring journey from application submission to Day 1. We also provide critical data to our internal work force staffing partners that provide key insights improving the candidate experience. We use Scrum and strive for continuous improvement. Here your contributions matter by helping shape the team environment and how we achieve our goals.