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.

Key job responsibilities

• Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all deliverables.

• Work with the product managers to refine the business and functional requirements and translate those into technical specifications.

• Work closely with senior engineers to design, implement and deploy applications that impact the candidate experience.

• Contribute to the management and execution of project plans and delivery commitments.

• Own the delivery of an integral piece of a system or application.

• Create and execute appropriate quality plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts.

• Mentor and coach other engineers.

A day in the life

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 at scale. You 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.

About the team

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.

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

• 1+ years of full stack development experience

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.