Front End Software Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA

Come help us create innovative capabilities for Amazon's Associates, managers, and leaders to support the evolution of People eXperience and Technology (PXT). The Workforce Solutions (WS) team builds and delivers world-class products/services for Amazon's employees, we believe that happy Amazon customers start with happy Amazon employees! We give Amazon associates around the globe the flexibility to enrich their job experience through pay incentives and job mobility. We thrive on developing world-class experiences for associates worldwide to empower them to increase their income, explore job options, train, choose, and progress in their careers at Amazon. As a member of this team, you are changing people's lives by creating the tools that help them advance in their careers! We're seeking a self-driven professional with strong communication skills who can deliver high-quality results in our fast-paced environment.

Key job responsibilities

• Use modern technologies to solve complex problems at scale
• Deliver solutions that scale in volume and handle the complexity of diverse workflows and country specific rules/regulations.
• Own automation of business processes in a full stack, mostly server-less environment using proven, as well as evolving native AWS services and other technologies to create a friction free user experience.
• Solve the challenging problem of scaling these services to serve hundreds of thousands of Amazonians across the globe in real-time
• Be a technical innovator that is not afraid to challenge the norms and innovate.
• Execute against project plans and delivery commitments.
• Solve complex business and technical problems by diving deep, collecting data to make well informed decisions, and using sound judgement in the face of insufficient data.
• Work with multiple cross functional teams to gather requirements, design, develop, deploy, and operate it across solution pipelines.
• Collaborate and lead initiatives across multiple teams to develop applications on AWS cloud infrastructure and set best practices for software development processes.
• Design and develop code, build CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and dashboards for monitoring health of systems and data pipelines.
• Develop and mentor junior and new team members.
• Lead engineering excellence initiatives for the org

A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer, you will design, develop, and test Amazon-scale enterprise business systems serving hundreds of thousands associates worldwide. Your role involves designing products, debugging complex systems, and collaborating across teams to deliver high-performance software. In addition, you'll create scalable, flexible solutions with low latency and high throughput, and integrate with other internal systems within Amazon's world-class operations.

About the team
Workforce Solutions (WS) is a horizontal, multi-discipline organization whose mission is to build the best people-forward technology to enable corporate recruitment for Amazon, globally. We build the intelligent technology products Amazon uses to make the right hiring decisions, every time, while being more equitable and candidate-centric in the end-to-end experience. We accomplish this by using our ability in product and program management, and design/research. Our portfolio of products is global (built mostly on native AWS), accounting for recruitment for all corporate roles. From the candidate-facing job site, to ensuring the role is filled - we build the entire gamut. We value people-centric solutions, and open exchange of ideas. We are uncompromising in our product and service north star, but flexible in the paths to achieve that goal.