What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Global Engineering Insights & Software Tools (GEIST) position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
Are you looking for an opportunity to develop technology that will redefine the customer experience for one of the fastest growing and strategic organizations within Global Engineering Services (GES)? Are you interested in joining a global team that is innovating with CX to make Amazon's building network grow? This is your chance to get in on the ground floor with the Global Engineering Insights & Software Tools (GEIST) tech team that is shifting the paradigm for engineering services with disruptive experiences! The GEIST organization supports a vast portfolio of buildings within the Amazon network and the build out standards and designs.
We are looking for a seasoned Sr. Software Development Engineer to serve as a strategic technical resource to lead cross-functional efforts, establish design and development standards and mechanisms, and to deliver innovative tools and automation for scaled usage. You will get the opportunity to define quality metrics for complex products, and identify trends to prevent future defects. You will work closely with Engineering, Product and Technical Program teams as you develop forward-looking architecture and build strategies to complement the revolutionary GEIST vision.
In this role, you will have the freedom (and encouragement) to experiment, improve, invent, and innovate on behalf of our customers. You will have the satisfaction of being able to look back and say you were a key contributor to something special from its earliest stages.
Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Software Development Engineer within GEIST, you will be leading the design and implementation for cross-functional projects, advocate for Operational Excellence, design best practice and testing strategies that improve and scale our software for GEIST customers worldwide - extending from internal users to external vendors. A successful candidate will have an established technical background in developing custom-built applications, a strong technical ability, excellent communication skills, and the ability to provide technical trade-off or solutions to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. Beyond this, responsibilities include:
- Mentorship for technical teams both as an individual contributor and thought leader for GEIST
- Establishing mechanisms for high-quality software development and delivery
- Champion Operational Excellence by challenging status quo and raising the bar
- Partnering closely with Product Management to understand business demands and provide direction to inform Product requirements for future, scaled systems
- Lead the system design reviews and drive team process improvement
- Lead, support, and influence large scale cross-functional projects
- Deliver innovative solutions and proof-of-concepts for large scale business challenges
A day in the life
This role is for a Sr. SDE with an emphasis on designing highly scalable and extensible applications. You'll be designing, building & leading other engineers on custom and ERP applications. You will also work closely with stakeholders, and products to deliver our most complex, high quality, scalable products deployed globally. The daily will include standard mechanisms to ensure high-quality development in addition to ad hoc engagements including code delivery to assist with high-profile challenges to the organization.
About the team
The GEIST team serves as the software solution team to all Global Engineering needs, working with its customers to set a consolidated Tech strategy, and prioritizing investments to best serve their needs and our bottom line. The GEIST team is responsible for the sustainment of a large product suite ranging from Planning & Forecasting applications to robust in-flight management of field execution users. These systems are leveraged by several thousand internal and external users around the globe.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 6 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 6 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
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Bachelor's degree
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5 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
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C , or C# including object-oriented design
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