Sr. SDE, Workforce Solutions (WS)

Amazon; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Workforce Solutions team seeks a self-driven engineer to define the technical vision and architecture for pay, training, and career mobility services used by global associates. You will lead end-to-end delivery, mentor engineers, and partner with PM-T and SDMs to translate business needs into scalable, reliable solutions on AWS.

This role offers the chance to influence cross-team decisions and improve employer experiences across Amazon's vast workforce.

Qualifications

• Experience mentoring or leading an engineering team.
• Experience leading architecture and design for scalable systems.
• Experience in professional software development.
• Proficiency in Java, C++, or C# with OO design.
• Recent development experience (last 3 years).

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for services that provide Amazon employees with pay, training, and career mobility options at global scale.
• Architect highly available, scalable, serverless solutions handling diverse workflows and country-specific rules/regulations.
• Lead system design decisions and trade-offs; navigate ambiguity when strategy is not defined.
• Own end-to-end delivery from concept to production operations.
• Collaborate with PM-T, SDMs, and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and engineering best practices.

Skills

Mentor / Tech lead

Architecture leadership

Professional software development

Java / C++ / C#

Recent development

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Come help us create innovative capabilities for Amazon's Associates, managers, and leaders to support the evolution of People eXperience and Technology (PXT). The Workforce Solutions (WS) team builds and delivers world-class products/services for Amazon's employees, we believe that happy Amazon customers start with happy Amazon employees! We give Amazon associates around the globe the flexibility to enrich their job experience through pay incentives and job mobility. We thrive on developing world-class experiences for associates worldwide to empower them to increase their income, explore job options, train, choose, and progress in their careers at Amazon. As a member of this team, you are changing people's lives by creating the tools that help them advance in their careers! We're seeking a self-driven professional with strong communication skills who can deliver high-quality results in our fast-paced environment.

Key job responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for services that provide Amazon employees with pay, training, and career mobility options at global scale
• Architect highly available, scalable, serverless solutions handling diverse workflows and country-specific rules/regulations
• Lead system design decisions and trade-offs; navigate ambiguity where technical strategy is not yet defined
• Own end-to-end delivery - from concept through design, development, deployment, and production operations
• Influence cross-team architecture and resolve technical dependencies proactively
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and engineering best practices
• Drive operational excellence for tier-one services - own runbooks, incident response, and reliability improvements
• Break down complex, multi-year efforts into executable phases and deliver with limited guidance
• Collaborate with PM-T, SDMs, and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Innovate on behalf of the employee using modern technologies; challenge norms and introduce new patterns
• Raise the engineering bar through hiring, technical assessments, and fostering a culture of ownership

About the team

Workforce Solutions (WS) is a horizontal, multi-discipline organization whose mission is to build the best people-forward technology to enable corporate recruitment for Amazon, globally. We build the intelligent technology products Amazon uses to make the right hiring decisions, every time, while being more equitable and candidate-centric in the end-to-end experience. We accomplish this by using our ability in product and program management, and design/research. Our portfolio of products is global (built mostly on native AWS), accounting for recruitment for all corporate roles. From the candidate-facing job site, to ensuring the role is filled - we build the entire gamut. We value people-centric solutions, and open exchange of ideas. The team has a clear product and service north star, but remains flexible in the paths to achieve that goal.

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

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