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Description

The Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Event tech team is looking for a Software Development Engineer (SDE) with a passion for working on cutting edge technology, obsesses over bar raising experiences for customers, and thrives on the challenge of building something new that will operate at world-wide scale to join our fast paced team. In this role, you will be responsible for implementing modern, creative, and innovative data experiences across a breadth of customer facing web apps, our data warehouse for reporting, and integration with third party applications.

If you are passionate about building state-of-the-art web applications and services that focus on simplicity, innovation, performance, consider applying for this role! Your work will have high visibility across AWS internally, and the global AWS community of developers and users.

In this position, we are looking for an engineer with deep service orientated expertise and experienced with variety of technologies. We are looking for someone who understands developing innovative services in the cloud, leveraging the best technologies AWS has to offer, and can build software. We need someone who is motivated to tackle ambiguous situations with technologies to rapidly produce prototypes. You will outline paths from prototype to product. You will need to contribute to the professional development of colleagues through mentoring, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices on your team. You have an eye towards quality and insist on the highest standards.

• Be heavily involved with design and product teams to understand needs, propose features, create early prototypes, and transform them into exciting experiences.

• Know how to integrate information from a large number of services.

• Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.

• Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, extensibility, and more as needed.

• Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes that are used by the entire services team for development.

• Mentor team members to promote engineering excellence

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.

• 3+ years professional experience in software development.

• 2+ years of industry experience of building front-end applications using technologies such as React, JavaScript, TypeScript, etc

• 2+ years of experience with backend technologies (e.g., NodeJS, GraphQL, NoSQL database)

• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, micro services, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.

• Experience with AWS technologies like Appsync, DynamoDB, Lambda, EventBridge, Amazon OpenSearch, CloudWatch and others

• Experience with Event based architecture, search and analyze unstructured and semi-structured data, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project.

· Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.

· Ability to work in a fast paced and agile development environment

· Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Role is open to: Boston or Herndon, VA

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.