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Amazon is looking for a highly-motivated Jr. Software Development Engineer (SDE)! Jr. SDEs write real software and collaborate with experienced software engineers who provide guidance and opportunities for ownership on projects that matter to our customers. As a year-round intern, Jr. SDEs become fully integrated into their teams and regularly contribute to impactful deliverables. Your design and code will contribute to solving some of Amazon's most complex technical challenges.The Jr. SDE role is part of Amazon's Jr Developer Program - a year-round internship opportunity that offers a symbiotic relationship between work and school. Jrs. receive 1:1 mentoring throughout their time in the program, receiving guidance and insight from a full-time Amazonian on their team. Because of the internship's extended tenure, our Jrs. become immersed in an Amazon team and gain real-life technical experience. Flexible part-time schedules during the school year and full-time employment over the summer creates an environment where students can succeed in both their work and their education. Santa Cruz has an established population of Jrs., allowing for deep connections with fellow students engaged in similar roles.Our team is currently looking for students to start with one of our cohorts in June 2025 and September 2025.Upon successful completion of the Jr. Developer Program, the opportunity for full-time employment may be available at an Amazon corporate site.Role Highlights:• Part-time work during the school year (16 hours/week)• Full-time work during the summer (40 hours/week)• 1:1 mentoring with an experienced Software Engineer• Effective performance management and integrated opportunities for growthBASIC QUALIFICATIONS• Currently enrolled in an accredited college or university Bachelor's or Master's degree program. -Majoring in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM field.• Graduating June 2027 and beyond.• Ability to work year-round until graduation (part-time during the school year and full-time during the summer).• This role is not offered as remote or hybrid and working hours must be conducted in person at our corporate office in Santa Cruz, CA. • Candidates must be living within commutable distance to Santa Cruz, CA and able to work in-person year-round.• Able to start working with the cohort in June or September 2025.• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, Python, or C++ including object-oriented design. ...

As a Senior SDE, you will have the opportunity to shape the next generation delivery technology, work process and customer/driver experience. Your will be part of the center of competency for embedded, mobile, wearable devices, sensors, and end-to-end sensing and analytics. Must have experience with low-latency, real-time applications in constrained environments on the edge. Key job responsibilitiesYou are expected to articulate and champion the product, vision, and development timeline in a cross-organization, cross-function and cross-geo environment with senior executives, as well as design, R&D, product management, operation, and finance teams. You will leverage your knowledge, experience, and network to deliver technology, solutions, as well as maximizing the long term potential of each individual engineer.A day in the lifeThis team is a great fit for you if:- You enjoy working with a fun team that prides itself on a great work environment with an inclusive group of people that are working together towards a common goal.- You are sensitive to customer needs and interested in working on a product that will be used, directly and indirectly, by millions of customers and has a meaningful impact to their functions and interactions.- You’d like to be directly responsible for solving real customer problems.- You are a passionate learner and are motivated to take on new challenges.- You want to have fun; surround yourself with a highly talented pool of engineers that like to solve complex problems, but also enjoy work.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team- Experience in Software Development developing multi-threaded mobile applications.- Expert knowledge of iOS/Android Architecture, performance optimization, and Security.- Experience in mobile app development in Swift/Kotlin.- iOS and Android UI Skills (Fragments, Custom view components)- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements- Experience in utilizing Mobile design patterns, building mobile frameworks/SDKs, building custom UX widgets and optimizing apps for performance- Experience working with Applied Scientists ...

How often have you had an opportunity to be a member of a project team that is tasked with solving a huge everyday problem through innovative technologies that transform and disrupt an entire industry?The Last Mile team at Amazon is responsible for delivering customer packages from delivery stations to customers' doorsteps. Amazon has expanded its Last Mile delivery efforts to accelerate customer delivery times and introduce new innovations. Working on the front lines of the Last Mile tech team allows you to have a tangible impact on the customer experience of receiving their packages. This network delivers packages, groceries, Prime Now, 3P, and Restaurant orders to homes, businesses, Amazon Lockers, and even cars across the globe. Hundreds of small businesses and tens of thousands of drivers leverage Amazon technology to deliver millions of packages to customers daily.Key job responsibilitiesThis role provides a unique opportunity to be a key part in designing and developing Safety standards and features for Amazon’s delivery drivers working on a full stack platform. You will be part of an agile development process to deliver high-quality software. You will work across teams to prototype ideas and solve complex problems, and raise the bar of our applications by advocating and driving software best practices, automating tasks and identifying pitfalls. You will have the opportunity to contribute your creative ideas and energy, working with world-class experts, and distributed cloud systems. You will participate in an agile development process to deliver high-quality software. You will be tasked with designing and building technical solutions to meet the needs of the business. You will have direct ownership over the design of new components aimed at improving the platform's extensibility, scalability, availability, and latency. You will participate and collaborate in architecture and design discussions, build and support features from conception to launch. You will work with team members to investigate design approaches, prototype technology and evaluate technical feasibility. You will help to improve engineering processes and tools to increase team effectiveness. We are seeking candidates with a demonstrated track record of developing highly scalable, global software solutions.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent- 5+ 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- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.- Server-side development experience, preferably in Java and/or Scala- Experience in AWS services (e.g: Lambda, CloudWatch, API Gateway, Dynamo DB). ...

We are seeking an innovative Software Development Manager that will obsess over integrated in-vehicle experience of drivers who use Amazon's delivery app in the Last Mile delivery vans. You will be the single-threaded leader for a core initiative and responsible for end-to-end business, customer/developer experience, and product development.Amazon's integrated in-vehicle delivery app is built for the Delivery Associates to help complete deliveries for many of Amazon's programs. Our application works in concert with advanced logistics systems that allow delivery partners to onboard and be guided through their deliveries with in-vehicle mapping, navigation, package delivery and customer information. We have launched 20K Rivian Electric Delivery Vans in the US and EU and are extending this game-changing experience to new vehicles in the Amazon Delivery fleet.Key job responsibilitiesAs the Software Development Manager, you'll lead a talented and nimble team of engineers to create innovative ways to deliver software that will keep the driver safe while on road. Responsibilities include direct management of 6+ engineers, process and quality of service improvements, strategic planning, project management for software within the team, and management of resources across teams. Successful candidates will be strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery.You will work with our product management, UX and other partner engineering teams to develop the strategy, followed by architecture and implementation of customer facing features in multiple vehicle OEMs. You will be responsible for the partner team enablement strategy to ensure feature parity across all surfaces. You will also own software in all phases of the software life-cycle from architecture and design through deployment and release. You will learn about Amazon’s logistics network, interact with other teams to build optimized systems, and have autonomy to deliver software which impacts multiple delivery provider programs.About the teamDelivery Assistance Technology (DAT) team delivers solutions that drive improvements to transporter processes. We invent products that create step function improvements in safety and productivity for Last Mile Delivery Associates.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of engineering team management experience- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience- Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment- Experience partnering with product or program management teams- Experience in mobile app development (iOS or Android) ...

The Jr. Applied Scientist role is a unique employment opportunity for students seeking to gain on-the-job applied science and machine learning experience and receive excellent mentoring while completing their education. Jr. Applied Scientists are immersed in an Amazon team and work on exciting, meaningful projects that impact real Amazon customers. Paired 1:1 with a Amazon Applied Science Mentor, Jr. Applied Scientists receive guidance and support in all aspects of their role: skill development, career advisement, project collaboration, and more! Upon successful completion of your degree and success in the Jr. Applied Scientist role, the opportunity for full-time employment will be available at the Amazon corporate site in Santa Cruz, CA. The Jr. Applied Scientist role is part of the Jr. Developer Program, a unique internship program in several respects:• We offer work year-round, part-time (16 hrs/week) while in school and full-time (40hrs/week) during summer. Working schedules are flexible and can be re-arranged each quarter to accommodate class schedules. • We offer excellent mentoring. Our full-time Applied Scientists, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, and Software Development Engineers are willing and able to mentor exceptional Jrs.• Jr. Applied Scientists are given responsibilities and roles that prepare them to enter the workforce after graduation with “real world” Applied Science and Machine Learning experience. Jrs. who participate in the Jr. Developer Program routinely acknowledge the valuable learning experience created by the uniform excellence of their teams, mentoring offered by experienced Amazonians, and the challenge of being a principal contributor to science and software products. Key job responsibilities• Amazon Applied Scientists are specialists with the knowledge to help drive the scientific vision for our products. They are experts in their respective field and are focused on innovating on behalf of their customers.• As a Jr. Applied Scientist at Amazon, you will connect with world leaders in your field working on similar problems. You will be working with distributed systems of data and providing technical partnership to the product managers, teams, and organizations building Machine Learning solutions. You will be tackling Machine Learning challenges along side a dedicated mentor.• Jr. Applied Scientists will analyze large amounts of data, discover and solve real world problems and build metrics and business cases around key performance of this program. • Ideal candidates will derive insights and identify actions we can take to improve the customer experience.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Currently enrolled in an accredited college or university Master's degree program.- Majoring in Computer Science, Statistics or a related STEM discipline.- This role is not offered as remote or hybrid and working hours must be conducted in our corporate office in Santa Cruz.- Graduating in June 2027 and beyond.- Ability to work year-round: part-time during the school year and full-time during the summer.- Living within commutable distance to Santa Cruz, CA and able to work in-person year-round. ...