Description

Are you interested in revolutionizing the Amazon employee experience?

Come join the Conversations team within the Amazonian Leadership Experience (ALX) group! We believe in a fundamental truth: every Amazonian is a leader, guided by our Leadership Principles as the foundation of our culture. From our products to our practices, we bring the Leadership Principles to life by empowering every Amazonian, whether they're individual contributors, front-line managers, or organizational leaders to grow into stewards of our cultural and deliver for our customers.

In this role, you will leverage your technical expertise to architect and implement innovative solutions that enhance communication and collaboration across Amazon. You will focus on building tools and platforms that facilitate meaningful discussions among Amazonians at all levels—from one-on-one interactions between employees and managers to peer-to-peer exchanges and group conversations. Your work will directly impact how effectively our teams communicate, share insights, and make decisions.

Key job responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market

• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.

• Mentor and guide the team members to solve complex problems with simple solutions.

• Drive big ideas to improve the Amazon employee experience we deliver across multiple touch points

• Develop high quality, testable, and maintainable user interfaces.

• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

A day in the life

As a Software Development Engineer (SDE) on the Conversations Team, you will be responsible for the feature design, development, test, and deployment of components for a new series of systems that enable our vision of an interconnected talent management system. As an SDE, you will be responsible for setting a high bar throughout the software development and deployment lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing, and operations. You will collaborate closely with other software developers, data engineers, data scientists, and learning scientists.

You are familiar with (and can learn) the basic patterns of expert system pipelines. You will be working closely with partner teams and domain experts to deliver solutions at Amazon scale. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing distributed systems, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically.

About the team

The Conversations Team’s mission is to make it easier for Amazonians to have meaningful discussions by supporting employees to have high-quality discussions that happen at the right time, build trust, and result in actionable next steps. We guide Amazonians throughout their employee lifecycle to prepare for, conduct, and follow up on conversations that support everything from their careers to day-to-day activities. We’re passionate about improving the Amazonian employee’s experience and Strive to be the Earth’s Best Employer. Join us in shaping the future of employee experience at one of the world's most innovative companies!

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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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.