Key job responsibilities
- 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 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 candidates, 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 Product Managers, and promote the operational excellence of the systems we operate.

About the team
The Amazon Scaling Products, Innovation, and Recruiter Efficiency (ASPIRE) team optimizes recruiting through innovative products that attract top talent efficiently. Our mission is to automate the recruiting experience, enabling recruiters to focus on high-value candidate interactions. We deliver world-class tools like the Amazon.jobs career site, content management system, candidate authentication, and application portals.

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
- 1+ years of full stack development experience

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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