Software Dev Engineer II, and Portal

Description

Imagine being part of a team that directly shapes and influences Amazon's future growth. Join the Amazon Scaling Products, Innovation, and Recruiter Efficiency (ASPIRE) team, where we optimize recruiting through innovative products that attract top talent efficiently. Our mission is to automate the recruiting experience, allowing recruiters to focus on high-value candidate interactions. You'll contribute to world‑class tools like the Amazon.jobs

career site, content management system, candidate authentication, and application portals.

Our products streamline processes from initial contact to hire, leveraging data science and automation to identify, engage, and convert exceptional candidates cost‑effectively. Be part of driving scalability and innovation across Amazon's recruiting ecosystem, integrating with partner teams while consolidating legacy tools into unified, simplified workflows that enhance productivity and reduce hiring costs.

To be successful on this journey, you should love having high standards for yourself and everyone you work with and always look for opportunities to make our services better. You are deeply customer focused: understand multiple customers' challenges and you are constantly looking for ways to pursue them.

The ideal candidate for this role will have a strong background in software development, with expertise in areas such as system design, data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles. Strong problem‑solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment are also essential.

• Designing, developing, and maintaining complex software systems that power Amazon's products and services.
• Architecting and implementing robust, scalable, and efficient software solutions.
• Collaborating with cross‑functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to deliver high‑quality software.
• Continuously improving coding practices, testing methodologies, and development processes.
• Staying up‑to‑date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Mentoring and providing guidance to more junior engineers.
• Participating in the overall direction and vision of the engineering team and organization.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will contribute to all aspects of the software development lifecycle including building an architectural vision and roadmap, advocating for our candidates, clarifying requirements, applying design patterns, development, documentation, testing, and continuously improving our operations. You will leverage Amazon's industry leading technologies to build systems  will use your strong verbal and written communication skills, to mentor engineers on the team, partner with Product Managers, and promote the operational excellence of the systems we operate.

The Amazon Scaling Products, Innovation, and Recruiter Efficiency (ASPIRE) team optimizes recruiting through innovative products that attract top talent efficiently. Our mission is to automate the recruiting experience, enabling recruiters to focus on high‑value candidate interactions. We deliver world‑class tools like the Amazon.jobs career site, content management system, candidate authentication, and application portals.

• 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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