What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Dev Engineer II, HSD position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
Come be part of a team that will directly shape and influence the future growth of Amazon. The SEO team (Scheduling, Evaluation, Outcome) is part of the Hiring Software Delivery organization building the systems used by recruiters and interviewers to help Amazon scale its hiring processes. SEO’s north star is to evaluate bar raising Amazonians with efficiency (reduced time and cost to fill) and accuracy (increased hiring quality).
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
To be successful on this journey, you should love having high standards for yourself and everyone you work with and always look for opportunities to make our services better. You are deeply customer focused: understand multiple customers' challenges and you are constantly looking for ways to pursue them. You will:
Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all deliverables.
Work with the product managers to refine the business and functional requirements and translate those into technical specifications.
Work closely with senior engineers to design, implement and deploy applications that impact the candidate application experience.
Contribute to the management and execution of project plans and delivery commitments;
Own the delivery of an integral piece of a system or application.
Create and execute appropriate quality plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts.
Mentor and coach other engineers.
A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer, you will contribute to all aspects of the software development lifecycle including building an architectural vision and roadmap, advocating for our customers, clarifying requirements, applying design patterns, development, documentation, testing, and continuously improving our operations. You will leverage Amazon's industry leading technologies to build systems at scale. You will use your strong verbal and written communication skills, to mentor engineers on the team, partner with other engineers, product managers, and UX designers to help drive business decisions, and promote the operational excellence of the system we operate.
About the team
SEO domain is split in three sub-domains: Scheduling, Evaluation, and Outcome. This role will be focusing specifically on the Evaluation and Outcome part of the Amazon hiring funnel enabled by Amazon Hire product. This includes interviewer feedback, debrief decisions, cross-funnel candidate dispositions, and interviewer eligibility and training. The Evaluation and Outcome north star is to raise the bar with every hire.
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
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