Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon Quick - Mission Control Triggers
Overview
In this role you will own the architecture and end-to-end delivery of the Trigger Service for Amazon Quick, spanning backend services, infrastructure, and frontend. You will set technical direction, drive reliable, scalable, and cost-conscious designs, and mentor engineers to raise the team’s bar. You’ll work with product and UX to translate needs into concrete roadmaps and deliver multi-region, event-driven solutions. This is a hands-on, leadership-heavy role in a fast-growing platform powering automated work to teams.
Compensation / Benefitshealth insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)401(k) matchingpaid time offparenteral leaveRSUs and sign-on paymentsDisability and life insurance
ResponsibilitiesOwn architecture and end-to-end delivery of large features across backend, infrastructure, and frontendDrive technical design decisions and tradeoffs for reliability, scale, and costBuild and operate scalable, event-driven distributed systems on AWSDefine and maintain multi-region CDK infrastructure and deployment pipelinesRaise engineering standards via design and code reviews, operational excellence, alarms, dashboards, and runbooksMentor mid-level and junior engineers and act as a technical leader for the teamPartner with product and UX to translate business needs into technical roadmaps
Key requirements5+ years of professional software development experience5+ years of programming experience in at least one language5+ years of leading design or architecture of systemsExperience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering teammentorshipleadershipcollaborationJava/KotlinAWS LambdaDynamoDB