As part of the Candidate Communication Services Team, you'll help develop and maintain an internal platform that empowers recruiters to keep candidates in the loop at every stage of the hiring process. In other words, you’ll help make the job hunt a little less like a black hole and a lot more like a well-lit path to success. As a member of the team, you will spend your time as a hands-on engineer who takes ownership of business/technical problem. You will play a key role in delivering software using a wide range of technologies, programming languages and systems. As you build a strong foundation in domain, you will have opportunity to explore your own ideas with the reward of seeing your code raise the bar for millions of Amazon customers worldwide, including your own family and friends.
You will participate in design reviews with aim of providing feedback to elevate the quality of designs. You will engage in various team ceremonies like code reviews, daily standup, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint retros, operational excellence hand-offs.
You will build large-scale, tier-1 (T1), high-performance, customer-friendly self-service tools and back-end services using the AWS technologies like Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Redshift and S3.
You will actively engage in operational support for your team, and ensure that the root causes of operational issues are identified and resolved. You don’t settle for the status quo, and routinely identify and execute on opportunities to improve your team’s operations.
We embrace the challenges of a fast paced market and evolving technologies, paving the way to Amazon association hiring candidate experience. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be innovative, and positively impact millions of customers. This is a young and evolving business where creativity and drive can make a lasting impact on world-wide consumer entertainment.
Key job responsibilities
· Be a technical leader that is not afraid to challenge the norms and innovate.
· Own, drive, and deliver software solutions
· Execute against project plans and delivery commitments.
· Develop relationships with internal and external partner teams to move fast.
· Help establish the long-term success strategy for your systems, development best practices, and operational excellence processes.
· Collaborate with peers to ensure your strategies are in alignment with the rest of the development teams.
· Develop junior and new team members by mentoring them on multiple fronts.
A day in the life
Daily activities include collaborating with other software developers and product team to define, design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain a variety of front and back-end solutions using native AWS services.
Daily you will:
· participate in stand-up, planning, leadership, and product meetings
· write, test, review high-quality code
· research and design novel software solutions
· estimate, write, and update requirements, design, and required documentation
Once a month, be part of on-call rotation to support any customer impacting incidents. Team has a very low record of incidents requiring work outside normal hours. You'll help improve and maintain our high standards.
About the team
Our team is new and growing. As an early team member, you'll help create and define the processes and tooling we use to delight our customers. Our goal is to provide job candidates with a frictionless hiring journey from application submission to Day 1. We use scrum and strive for continuous improvement. Here, your contributions matter by helping shape the team environment and how we achieve our goals.
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
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