Software Development Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Amazon is one of the largest employers on the planet with hundreds of thousands of employees across the globe. Our HR People Technology organization is seeking an experienced leader for a highly talented engineering team focusing on delivering Time and Attendance solutions.

Amazon's HR mission is to build a workplace for Amazonians to invent on behalf of our customers. We are enablers to help Amazon scale quickly and efficiently as we continue to expand rapidly across countries, business lines and size in general. The volume of internal human resource transactions and range of experiences to fulfill in this scale and diversity are massive and unique respectively. This requires a highly reliable, scalable and customized series of software applications that ensure our global employee base receives accurate, timely and best experiences throughout their employee lifecycle. Amazon has grown significantly since the deployment of these tools and we are now at an inflection point where we are making long term decisions to support our explosive global growth. Our business rules are complex and arcane, varying by role, business, and jurisdiction.

You should be a passionate, results-oriented, experienced software developer. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, have a relentless focus on the customer experience and want to build something new rather than just maintain someone else's code, then this role is for you. Successful candidates will be strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery. The People Tech business requires creative engineering balanced with high quality and customer focus.

Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:

* · Exhibits excellent judgment
* · Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
* · Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or the technology
* · Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
* · Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
* · Strong results orientation
* · Thinks big