Software Development Engineer II, End User Messaging

Amazon • Seattle, WA

18h

About The Position

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to
provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and
expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day
operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses
through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve
enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s
real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers
prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that
are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Are you passionate about the intersection of cloud computing and mobile
applications? Join the Amazon Pinpoint team to build large-scale messaging
application for app developers and enterprises to engage their users. We are
ramping up the team to build out richer and more engaging interactions and
experiences through Messaging. This is a unique opportunity to work with
technologies at the bleeding edge and support a high-performing team that is
working to change the email industry by ramping up features and technologies
developers.

Amazon Pinpoint is recruiting a Software Development Engineer who will be
responsible for being the technical leader responsible for helping driving
messaging products including email and text messages. You will work with
customers and other technology leaders at Amazon to help translate strategic
business needs into features and projects, and then work with your team to
deliver those features and projects more quickly than many other people may
think is possible. Successful candidates will be equally adept at driving a
design review for a new distributed system as well as delivering a talk in front
of hundreds of technology peers at yearly Amazon Web Services (AWS) conference,
re:Invent.

As the Software Development Engineer, you will work as a technology leader and
demonstrate exemplary practice in design and implementation of new scalable
services. You will lead technology areas that drive solutions for a super solid,
scalable, efficient, and extremely fault tolerant service. You will help
influencing overall strategy by helping define the product features, driving
system architecture, and spearheading the best practices that enable a quality
product. The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving some of the
hardest engineering challenges in distributed systems at massive scale on an
ongoing basis and have a demonstrable track record for delivering successful
products.

The best part of working with Amazon Pinpoint is the chance to help customers
solve exciting new challenges and create new web-based experiences every day
that impacts millions of users. AWS customers are innovators, and you will have
the chance to work with them to understand their challenges and design new
offerings. Join us and make history building a massive-scale messaging system!

This hands-on position requires broad engineering competence and in-depth
technical knowledge of service engineering, as well as demonstrated experience
successfully planning, organizing, and conducting software development projects
in a dynamic environment. As the Software Development Engineer, you will engage
in the following key responsibilities:

Requirements

• 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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Ability to quickly deliver impactful customer features.
• Demonstrate Amazon's leadership principles.
• Lead team strategy and plan future diretcion

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