What are the responsibilities and job description for the SDEII, AWS WorkDocs Web position at Amazon?
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Job summary
Are you interested in helping people collaborate to make great content, no matter where they are located? Do you want to help businesses get more value from the information scattered across their organization? If so, Amazon WorkDocs presents an opportunity to make a lasting impact in the lives of millions of users.
Amazon WorkDocs is a fully managed cloud service that makes it easy for business users to store, find, securely access, and organize content so they can get more done. We are looking for a well-rounded experienced software development engineer with a proven track record of solving challenging technical problems and creating great products for end users. Expectations from the candidate is to help us build a new set of secure, intelligent, user-friendly tools for managing and collaborating on all types of content.
You will work and learn with senior leaders, principal engineers, and cross-organization partners at your side to deliver experiences enjoyed by customers around the world. We are building new features as well as adapting existing features for a remote-first collaborative world reaching more than 1 million users around the world. We understand that this can be daunting and don’t expect you to know it all. Instead, we are looking for people that value a diverse and supportive culture, while having a growth mindset and willingness to learn. We provide the needed mentorship and career growth to help you be successful.
The ideal candidate will have an exceptional design, and coding skills along with strong technical acumen. They will be will be a catalyst for change by working with the various product managers and principal engineers to design and code reliable, flexible and scalable solutions, and work on some of the most complex challenges. As experienced development engineer you can own a task from end to end while mentoring other developers.
Our development teams are based in Austin, Bellevue, Denver, Dallas, Portland, Vancouver, North and South California, Seattle and NYC, offering a range of cities where developers can jumpstart their careers.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
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. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Key job responsibilities
You will work and learn with senior leaders, principal engineers, and cross-organization partners at your side to deliver experiences enjoyed by customers around the world. We are building new features as well as adapting existing features for a remote-first collaborative world reaching more than 1 million users around the world. We understand that this can be daunting and don’t expect you to know it all. Instead, we are looking for people that value a diverse and supportive culture, while having a growth mindset and willingness to learn. We provide the needed mentorship and career growth to help you be successful.
About the team
Amazon WorkDocs is a product that is used by Amazonians and external companies alike. We have built WorkDocs using other AWS Products for storage, workflows, compute, messaging, analytics and more. Our customers use our product through various channels - web, mobile and desktops. Our team is a first-hand user of our own product and this makes us a unique team that is able to walk in the shoes of our customers. This translates into a tight feedback loop and high empowerment to reduce customer friction and innovate. Come build on AWS with WorkDocs and scale your career to the next level.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 1 years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
- 2 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Programming experience with at least one software programming language.
· 3 years of hands-on software development experience.
· Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
· 2 years experience in building web applications with JavaScript/CSS Frameworks.
· 2 years experience in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java, C#.
· Eager to learn new skills and mentor new developers. Its always Day 1 at Amazon.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey technical information to a wide variety of audiences
· Experience developing front-end software, with deep experience in one or more relevant front-end frameworks (e.g.: React, Vue, Angular, etc.)
· Ability to convert a design document into a working service with no loss in fidelity
· Strong Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design and problem solving.
· Strong knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, performance and operations.
· Post-graduate degree in Computer Science or related field
· Ability to deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
