Software Development Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Are you passionate about the intersection of cloud computing and mobile applications? Join the Amazon Pinpoint team to build large-scale messaging application for app developers and enterprises to engage their users. We are ramping up the team to build out richer and more engaging interactions and experiences through Messaging. This is a unique opportunity to work with technologies at the bleeding edge and support a high-performing team that is working to change the email industry by ramping up cutting-edge features and technologies developers.

Amazon Pinpoint is recruiting a Software Development Engineer who will be responsible for being the technical leader responsible for helping driving email. Amazon Pinpoint is part of Amazon Data Services, and is a highly-scalable service designed to enable businesses to run targeted campaigns to drive user engagement in mobile apps. You will work with customers and other technology leaders at Amazon to help translate strategic business needs into features and projects, and then work with your team to deliver those features and projects more quickly than many other people may think is possible. Successful candidates will be equally adept at driving a design review for a new distributed system as well as delivering a talk in front of hundreds of technology peers at yearly Amazon Web Services (AWS) conference, re:Invent.

As the Software Development Engineer, you will work as a technology leader and demonstrate exemplary practice in design and implementation of new scalable services. You will lead technology areas that drive solutions for a super solid, scalable, efficient, and extremely fault tolerant service. You will help influencing overall strategy by helping define the product features, driving system architecture, and spearheading the best practices that enable a quality product. The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving some of the hardest engineering challenges in distributed systems at massive scale on an ongoing basis and have a demonstrable track record for delivering successful products.

The best part of working with Amazon Pinpoint is the chance to help customers solve exciting new challenges and create new web-based experiences every day that impacts millions of users. AWS customers are innovators, and you will have the chance to work with them to understand their challenges and design new offerings. Join us and make history building a massive-scale messaging system!

This hands-on position requires broad engineering competence and in-depth technical knowledge of service engineering, as well as demonstrated experience successfully planning, organizing, and conducting software development projects in a dynamic environment. As the Software Development Engineer, you will engage in the following key responsibilities:

* Develop and deploy cloud software framework for Amazon Pinpoint channels
* Provide technical leadership and contribute to the definition, development, integration, test, documentation, and support of (mainly Java-based) software
* Create new feature and performance improvements
* Prepare technical requirements and software design specifications
* Instill best practices for software development and documentation, making sure designs meet requirements, and delivering high quality software on tight schedule