Benefits Experience and Technology is building new technology and services to deliver an integrated, end-to-end experience for all Amazonians to discover, enroll, and manage Amazon benefits including health, life, retirement, time-off, commuter, discounts, and others. Our team delivers comprehensive employee benefits and offers individualized support to fellow employees navigating personal and professional life events.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about new opportunities and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, bias for action, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.
Key job responsibilities
- Take ownership over the software design, documentation, development, engineering approach, delivery and support of new Benefits platform built natively in AWS.
- Actively participate in the design, technology selection, and build of the platform.
- Interacting with engineers, product stakeholders and managers, working on creative algorithms and building large-scale systems.
A day in the life
An SDE II will have a broad array of experiences, exceptional design skills, an excellent ability to solve problems, good communication skills and a desire to be a key technical contributor. The software you will be responsible for will require a breadth of technical development knowledge (i.e. distributed real-time systems, big data, orchestration software).
About the team
Benefits Experience and Technology is a relatively new organization. Amazon has been reliant on vendor services for benefits, and we're just now taking the opportunity to build in-house technology to provide the best experience for Amazonians!- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent- Master's degree or equivalent
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