Software Development Engineer II

Amazon is one of the largest employers on the planet with hundreds of thousands of employees across the globe. Come join us in our journey to deliver solutions for one of the most complex domains in People eXperience Technology (PXT). We own and deliver technology to manage employee time expectations and compute their pay, globally, for all our current and emerging businesses. At the core, we are in the business of analytics - real-time and event-driven - of data collected from IoT devices (time clocks) and web user interfaces. We own our own high-availability authoritative services to support this processing, and require the ability to work from authoritative, replay-able, auditable "truth" for any point in an employee's timeline. Our business rules are complex and arcane, varying by role, business, and jurisdiction. We are solving all these problems at Amazon scale, an order of magnitude larger than supported by any commodity solutions and growing exponentially.

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 PXT 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 their team
- Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
- Strong results orientation
- Thinks big

Key job responsibilities
- Use software engineering best practices to ensure the highest quality for all deliverables.
- Work with the product managers to define and refine the business and functional requirements and translate those into technical specifications.
- Work closely with other engineers while leading the design, implementation, and deployment of applications and systems at a large scale.
- Contribute to the management and execution of project plans and goals.
- Own the delivery of integral pieces of a system or application.
- Create and execute appropriate quality plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in unison with business and project management efforts.
- Mentor and develop other engineers.