Software Development Engineer, FPDS DCX

Interested in working with the latest technology in the cloud computing space?

The Amazon Foundational People Data Services (FPDS) team is building cutting edge solutions to enable employees and managers to self-serve changes across all human resource processes.
Join us in building an innovative technology using Amazon Web Services to meet the complex and unique demands of managing nearly 3, 000, 000 employees globally. We dive deep to insist on the highest standards in architecture, coding, testing, deploying and maintaining every aspect of our offerings.

We are looking for scale-focused and customer-obsessed developers with strong computer science fundamentals, including full stack development, data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and innovate in latest trends like application of LLM into our services.

Mentorship & Career Growth: Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

Work/Life Balance: Our team also maintains inclusive team culture and we put a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success.

If you re thrilled by the idea of ownership, passionate about creating new applications and features from scratch and comfortable with the pace of a company shipping software in cycles measured in weeks not years, we would love to connect with you.

Key job responsibilities
- Take ownership of software design, documentation, development, engineering approach, delivery, and support of systems built natively in AWS.
- Collaborate with leaders, work backwards from customers, identify problems, propose innovative solutions, and raise standards.
- Have a positive impact on our customers by delivering high-quality software solutions.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders on planning and communication of project deliverables.
- Participate in an on-call rotation within your team to troubleshoot and resolve defects, with ongoing communication with stakeholders and customers.
- Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve software development practices.

About the team
The core of Foundational People Data Services is to provide its customers with a secure, fast, and reliable way to store and consume worker data. Here in Data Consumer Experience (DCX) we focus on secure consumption of this data for builder teams. Our engineers use technology to solve complex problems across the Amazon ecosystem, collaborating with team members in and across teams. They have the responsibility to improve and build new tools, services, and applications. Taking a business problem from conception and designing, developing and deploying software solutions while holding a high bar for code quality and their craft, is at the heart of how they make impact. They have a responsibility to deliver on schedule using current software engineering best practices. - 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
- 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