Description

Are you passionate about the developer experience? Do you want to help change the future of how products are built? Do you have great ideas on how to create powerful, intuitive development tools? If so, we want to talk to you!

Amazon CodeCatalyst is a unified software development service that makes it easy for development teams to quickly build and deliver applications on AWS.

We are looking for candidates who are eager to develop their skills while learning from our tenured team members to ensure their success. The ability to deep dive ambiguous problems while inventing and simplifying a solution will be key to your success in this role.

As a software development engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction, vision, design, roadmap and development.

Mentoring

We have a program that helps you find a mentor at Amazon, aligning the skills you are wanting to improve upon with others who have superpowers in those areas. Your manager can also help you meet mentors who can help you achieve your professional aspirations. In addition to formal mentoring, as an organization, we collaborate and train together so can share experiences and learn from one another. Our team celebrates and supports the career progression of our team members.

Work-Life Balance

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

Key job responsibilities

Influence product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution

Build experience designing large-scale systems with a focus on horizontal scaling, high throughput and massive, rapidly growing data sets

Solve complex software problems using design and problem-solving skills

Have an in-depth understanding in SDLC areas like IDE’s, source code management, CI/CD and compliance solutions

Be knowledgeable in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and workflow engines

Love collaborating with senior leaders to design and build a large-scale AWS product

Mentor and lead junior developers on the team

A day in the life

Work with developers as your core customers

Design and build the architecture, identify and investigate new technologies, prototype solutions, and test and review changes, to deliver an exceptional customer experience

Use core AWS technologies to design and build scalable web services and customer-facing APIs

Develop software that enables customers to be productive building their own software

Collaborate and work alongside a passionate group of software engineers and product folks who love making the tooling we each wish we had

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.