Benefits Experience and Technology is building new technology and services to deliver an integrated, end-to-end experience for all Amazonians to discover, enroll, and manage Amazon benefits including health, life, retirement, time-off, commuter, discounts, and others. Our team delivers comprehensive employee benefits and offers individualized support to fellow employees navigating personal and professional life events.
We are looking for an experienced software development engineer who will be a peer leader to a team of top-notch engineers to build a new platform to manage data exchange and transformation.
Key job responsibilities
As a Senior SDE on the team you will be responsible for leading the development and launch of core services and product features for Benefits Tech. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about new opportunities and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, bias for action, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.
About the team
Benefits Experience and Technology is a relatively new organization. Amazon has been reliant on vendor services for benefits, and we're just now taking the opportunity to build in-house technology to provide the best experience for Amazonians!
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Dublin, D, IRL
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in development in the last 3 years
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations