Software Engineer, Translation Services

Amazon • Seattle, WA

6d • $143,700 - $194,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Translation Services seeks a passionate Software Development Engineer to drive innovations in translation to reach every Amazon customer in their own language. Are you passionate about creating high-performance, large-scale language translation services to support Amazon's current and future growth? Do you thrive in environments where you can lead innovation? If so, we're seeking a software engineer to join the Translation Services (TS) team. TS provides technology solutions and services that deliver quality translations at the lowest possible cost for Amazon businesses. As a Software Development Engineer, you'll help drive efforts to build translations solutions at Amazon scale with 100% translations coverage, eventually making translations a no-op for developers so that they can focus on business logic and application building. We're seeking a self-starting individual comfortable with ambiguity, possessing strong attention to detail, and dedicated to ensuring that secondary language experiences match the excellence of primary language experiences, even at Amazon's vast scale.

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
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

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

• Drive innovations in translation to reach every Amazon customer in their own language.
• Build translations solutions at Amazon scale with 100% translations coverage.
• Make translations a no-op for developers so that they can focus on business logic and application building.
• Ensure that secondary language experiences match the excellence of primary language experiences.

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level