Software Dev Engineer II, Talent Development

Amazon • Seattle, WA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Talent Development Journey team's mission is to make it easier for Amazonians to build rewarding careers in Amazon’s peculiar culture. To deliver on this mission, the Talent Development tech team is building a talent development ecosystem (TDE) which empowers human judgment, action, and interaction to make it easier to learn and grow in Amazon’s peculiar culture. TDE enables authoring high quality content, delivering personalized learning experiences, and measuring proficiencies at scale. As a Software Development Engineer (SDE) on Talent Development, you will be responsible for the feature design, development, test, and deployment of components for a new platform for recording the learning experience of Amazon employees. As an SDE, you will be responsible for setting a high bar throughout the software development and deployment lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing, and operations. You will collaborate closely with other software developers, data engineers, data scientists, and learning scientists. You are familiar with (and can learn) the basic patterns of expert system pipelines. You will be working closely with education scientists and domain experts. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing distributed systems, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically.

Requirements

• 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with (and ability to learn) the basic patterns of expert system pipelines.
• Established background in developing distributed systems.
• Strong technical ability.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Great communication skills.
• Motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Feature design, development, test, and deployment of components for a new platform for recording the learning experience of Amazon employees.
• Setting a high bar throughout the software development and deployment lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
• Collaborating closely with other software developers, data engineers, data scientists, and learning scientists.
• Working closely with education scientists and domain experts.
• Thinking and acting both strategically and tactically.

Benefits

• 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
• Parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree