BXT - Software Development Engineer, Benefits Tech

Job summary
The Amazonian Benefits team is responsible for designing and building distributed, scalable, flexible and extensible products and services on AWS infrastructure.

The Benefits Technology suite of products enables rapid business changes, expansions and changing dynamics of Amazon’s workforce. This product is built to satisfy unique employee and evolving regulatory needs at the city, county, state and national level. This role offers the unique opportunity to help build a world class technical solution from the ground up and positively impact the experience for millions of users. You will be able to conceptualize, propose technical designs for this product and help shape the technical direction and strategy.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer that would be responsible for design, development, launch and operation of the key initiatives associated with the most complex integration system. You will work in a highly collaborative and supportive environment across all stages of an agile software development life cycle, including architecture design, development, documentation, testing and operations.

Join us in building innovative solutions on Amazon Web Services leveraging a cutting edge technology stack that would delight our customers.

This role can sit in one of the following locations: Dallas TX, Seattle WA and Arlington VA.


Key job responsibilities
To be successful on this journey, you should love having the highest standard for yourself and others you work with while always looking for opportunities to make our services better. You are deeply customer focused, understand multiple customers’ challenges, and constantly looking for ways to pursue them.
You will:
- 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

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.