Key job responsibilities

1. Lead the architectural design and development of critical platform features, ensuring solutions are highly scalable, maintainable, and align with AWS best practices

2. Drive technical excellence through mentorship of junior engineers and establishment of coding standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices

3. Architect and implement AI powered solutions leveraging AWS services to enable predictive support capabilities and automated workflow orchestration

4. Design and build robust integration patterns between multiple HR systems while ensuring data security and compliance

5. Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into elegant technical solutions

6. Lead cross-team technical initiatives and drive consensus on architectural decisions

7. Champion operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, and continuous improvement of system reliability

8. Partner with SDE-IIIs and Principal Engineers in the organization to drive execution of our 3-year architecture plans (3YAP) for the technology as well as drive tradeoff decisions balancing long term vision with delivering immediate impact to our customers.

9. Mentor for SDE-Is in the team, coaching your peers on engineering excellence and leadership principles and partner with SDMs and PMs to deliver team level goals.

10. Get an opportunity to be mentored by other Sr. engineers in the team and learn from Principal Engineers while working on the goals.

A day in the life

Attend a team-level operations review meeting to understand system health and identify actions we need to take to keep the system available for our clients.

Meet with a customer to understand the problems they are facing, brainstorm solutions, and discuss with your management to affect team priorities.

Review team designs and raise the design bar by providing insightful comments.

Coach team on new technologies and deliver team productivity gains.

Provide leadership support to the team by doing regular 1:1s and planning individual career development.

About the team

Our team's mission is to build innovative automation solutions to reduce manual effort, reduce errors and improve user experience of existing processes for Amazonians. We are working towards the next wave of innovation in building tools and products which will ensure compliance with privacy regulations while providing a simple, efficient, accessible and user-friendly experience.

Our engineers use technology to solve complex problems across all Amazon ecosystem, collaborating with team members in and across teams. They have the responsibility to improve and build new tools, services, and applications. Taking a business problem from conception and designing, developing and deploying software solutions while holding a high bar for code quality and their craft, is at the heart of how they make impact. They have a responsibility to deliver on schedule using current software engineering best practices.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience

- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience

- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience

- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations

- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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, WA, Bellevue - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually