Our team is building Amazon Connect Talent, a new AI-powered solution within Amazon Connect that helps organizations streamline hiring. You will contribute directly to this product as we bring it to market, working across the full stack to deliver features that make talent operations simpler and more intelligent for our customers.
The Software Development Engineer II will contribute to the development of AI systems. The role requires balancing rapid innovation with reliability and compliance. You should be comfortable working on difficult problems with visible risks or roadblocks. You'll work closely with technical leaders within the team. We're looking for engineers who can maintain high standards while moving quickly, prioritizing both rapid experimentation and responsible AI development to deliver measurable customer impact.
Key job responsibilities
* Contribute to technical decisions and implementations for AI systems that balance accuracy, latency, and compliance
* Work with product and science teams to deliver impactful AI features that simplify complex business processes
* Deliver software features and improvements to major portions of our team's software
* Solve difficult software problems, bringing clarity to problems and identifying simple designs for solutions
* Actively participate in design reviews and code reviews for your team
* Mentor junior engineers on the team
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
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
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
- Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually