Software Development Engineer, Special Projects

About the role

This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company's Think Big leadership principle to the next level. We focus on creating entirely new biotechnology products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. If you're interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will work with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Our team rewards intellectual curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, startup-like environment.

You'll have the opportunity to work alongside some of the most talented scientists, engineers, and product managers to build innovative, customer-facing solutions. We highly value work-life balance, mentorship, and career growth.

Responsibilities

• Deliver features and improvements to major portions of the codebase, working closely with stakeholders and peers to understand customer problems and ensure you build the right solutions
• Operate across the software stack from backend data pipelines to user-facing interfaces
• Tackle difficult problems with visible risks, bringing clarity and identifying simple solutions while understanding customer impact
• Design software solutions to enable new features or improve existing ones, aligning with your team's long-term architectural strategy
• Demonstrate operational excellence in all of your work, actively participating in operational support and ensuring root causes of issues are identified and resolved
• Earn trust with design, product, and engineering partners, demonstrating empathy, candor, and backbone through all levels of communication
• Implement engineering excellence mechanisms like CI/CD pipelines, alarming and monitoring solutions, raise the bar on security and systems resilience

A day in the life:

• Designing and implementing innovative features and experiences that delight users
• Collaborating closely with applied scientists, designers, product managers, and other engineers to turn concepts into high-quality, scalable code
• Working across the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, UX review, code implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Utilizing common UI design patterns to decrease friction between the customer and software
• Balancing speed of execution with architectural requirements and user experience considerations
• Continuously learning and expanding your skills to keep pace with evolving technologies and customer needs

Requirements

• 2+ 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
• 2+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations 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

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including:

• 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 and parental leave

Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

USA, WA, Seattle - $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.