Software Dev Engineer II, AWS Pinpoint SMS

- 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
- 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Are you passionate about the intersection of cloud computing and mobile applications? Join the Amazon Pinpoint team to build large-scale messaging application for app developers and enterprises to engage their users. We are ramping up the team to build out richer and more engaging interactions and experiences through Messaging. This is a unique opportunity to work with technologies at the bleeding edge and support a high-performing team that is working to change the email industry by ramping up cutting-edge features and technologies developers.

Amazon Pinpoint is recruiting a Software Development Engineer who will be responsible for being the technical leader responsible for helping drive messaging products including email and text messages. You will work with customers and other technology leaders at Amazon to help translate strategic business needs into features and projects, and then work with your team to deliver those features and projects more quickly than many would think possible.

As the Software Development Engineer, you will work as a technology leader and demonstrate exemplary practice in design and implementation of new scalable services. You will lead technology areas that drive solutions for a super solid, scalable, efficient, and extremely fault tolerant service. You will help influencing overall strategy by helping define the product features, driving system architecture, and spearheading the best practices that enable a quality product. The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving some of the hardest engineering challenges in distributed systems at massive scale on an ongoing basis and have a demonstrable track record for delivering successful products.

The best part of working with Amazon Pinpoint is the chance to help customers solve exciting new challenges and create new web-based experiences every day that impacts millions of users. AWS customers are innovators, and you will have the chance to work with them to understand their challenges and design new offerings. Join us and make history building a massive-scale messaging system!

This hands-on position requires broad engineering competence and in-depth technical knowledge of service engineering, as well as demonstrated experience successfully planning, organizing, and conducting software development projects in a dynamic environment. As the Software Development Engineer, you will engage in the following key responsibilities:

- Develop and deploy cloud software framework for Amazon Pinpoint channels
- Provide technical leadership and contribute to the definition, development, integration, test, documentation, and support of (mainly Java-based) software
- Create new feature and performance improvements
- Prepare technical requirements and software design specifications
- Instill best practices for software development and documentation, making sure designs meet requirements, and delivering high quality software on tight schedule

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